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FOREWORD 

This book, which has been written by a 
young woman who is not familiar with the sub- 
jects dealt with, contains truths which cannot 
fail to convince you of a life outside the physical 
existence. It is especially impressive since it 
bears the stamp of earnest appeal and sincerity. 

The circumstances connected with its com- 
position are compelling, and it is important that 
these facts should be made known that the 
readers of this book can draw their own con- 
clusions regarding its authenticity. The man- 
ner in which the young woman discovered that 
she possessed psychic power was unusual. The 
first message which she received came on a Sun- 
day evening early in October when a small party 
of persons were amusing themselves by receiving 
messages from discarnate spirits. The method 
used was the simple one of the drinking glass 
and the alphabet which was printed in large 
letters upon a square of bristol board. One of 
the ladies in the party was apparently the only 
one who could draw a control. No messages of 
weight or importance were received until after 
the guests had departed. The seance had taken 
place at the home of the young woman who has 



6 The Letters Of 

written this book. She was so thoroughly ex- 
cited over the events of the evening that she 
decided to try to get a message alone. The 
glass immediately began to move and letters 
formed intelligent messages. That was the be- 
ginning of many interesting and unusual mes- 
sages, which gradually led up to the writing of 
this book. On the eighteenth of October, in 
1916, early in the forenoon when the young 
woman was alone busily engaged with her house- 
hold duties, a voice so natural that it failed to 
startle her told her to get the glass. This she 
refused to do. The voice was insistent and the 
girl suddenly realized that it was not a natural 
occurrence and hastily got the alphabet and the 
glass. It moved rapidly, almost eagerly, and 
spelled out that the spirit controlling the glass 
was Mrs. Thomas and that she wanted to write 
a book. A few days later Mrs. Thomas com- 
menced the writing of her book through this 
method. However, the strain was so great up- 
on the young woman that after a few pages had 
been written she was ready to give up in despair 
of ever completing it. At this point Mrs. Thomas 
spelled out the following message: "Put away 
the glass and I will control your arm." This 
seemed almost impossible to the girl, but she 



A Woman Who Was 7 

took a pencil and a pad of paper and after an 
interval of a few minutes the pencil began to 
move with jerks but always very rapidly, and 
the writing of the book was resumed through 
the automatic control. 

It took fifty-one hours to write the book, 
averaging about three hours a day. This book 
carries a direct appeal to those who have been 
seeking for knowledge of this character. It is 
written in a simple, straightforward manner, in 
the form of letters such as a mother would write 
to her children from a foreign land, giving ad- 
vice and counsel, making many sage observa- 
tions about life in the spirit world and on earth. 
The book expresses her various moods. She 
tells of her sorrows, her trials and regrets, relat- 
ing also many unusual experiences of other en- 
tities with whom she has come in contact. 

Those of you who read this book cannot but 
be convinced of its sincerity and truth and its 
effect will be that of giving you a new hope and 
of making all who read it better men and women. 

With this explanation I submit to the read- 
ers the following chapters. 

Editor 



PREFACE 

The object of this book is to place before 
the masses in clear, condensed form some initial 
truths pertaining to the spiritual existence which 
in the due course of time we are all called upon 
to assume. Many of these truths have before 
been extolled, although in such a ponderous form 
as to be accessible only to a student or scholar. 
My mission is to impart to the masses this in- 
formation in clear concise form that they may 
fully comprehend and understand its full mean- 
ing. By accepting these facts you will find that 
you are gaining something which you have 
never before possessed. The essentials that are 
necessary to advance evolution consciously are, 
first, the keenest desire for the truth, then you 
must acquire devotion and finally a clear under- 
standing. After you gain these qualities you 
will be ready to accept the truth and spiritual 
knowledge. I am not imparting these truths 
through my own understanding but through 
that of high entities who are taking upon them- 
selves the great responsibility of enlightening 
the masses. Through previous incarnations I 
was drilled and coached that I might become 
the channel for this work. The young girl 



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whom the adepts have chosen has also gone 
through rigid training and since early childhood 
of this life she has been under the constant 
observance of the adepts who were awaiting 
fuller development of that spiritual strength 
which even now is only in its bud. This young 
woman has been chosen as the channel through 
which these teachers will impart such truth as 
the world never before has possessed. There 
are to be five more books of greater length which 
will explain fully every phase of life in the 
spiritual existence and on earth. This book is 
merely the means for introducing the great 
works which are to follow. The next book is 
full of vital interest and a narrative runs through- 
out it and it will be known under the name of 
"The Diary of an Adept." It will contain as- 
tounding truths and experiences which even the 
advanced student has yet to learn. The time 
has come when the world must accept these 
truths. It has been so decreed and from this 
time on there will be revelations made which 
we hope will convince the people in the world 
of the absolute truth of a spiritual existence 
after death. This great work is taken up with 
the point in view of enlightening those people 
who desire to know the absolute truth about life. 



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Many of you would before have accepted 
these teachings had they been presented in more 
readable form, which would appeal to the best 
that is in you. In the perusal of this book I 
would suggest that you study completely each 
thought and try to get the spiritual meaning as 
I have tried to convey it. There are many 
books that can be obtained that expound these 
spiritual truths to a certain measure, but hu- 
man mind, no matter how highly developed it 
may be, cannot grasp fully the significance of 
these facts and in writing of these truths they 
are not always accurate in stating them. It is 
indeed my sincere wish that this work and those 
which will follow it will be accepted by the 
public and that some good may be gained 
through our combined efforts. Since we know 
that we cannot progress through ignorance, why 
not take up the candle' of spiritual illumination 
and hold it before us that we may be guided 
through our existence without getting so sorely 
bruised and weary, and since you know that by 
gaining full consciousness of the spiritual exist- 
ence you will have gained something which is 
immortal and cannot but help to serve you and 
to lighten the burdens that all human beings 
are called upon to bear. And so I say unto all 



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Ages and Races, Strive for the finest, noblest 
things in life. Keep your ideals lofty and do 
your utmost to live up to them. We all fall at 
times beneath the level we have set out to gain 
and there is no disgrace in that. The disgrace 
is staying down when you might well arise and 
even gain the great heights that appear so far 
away; and my purpose is to help you to gain 
that knowledge of the first essential truths that 
will help you to climb up without falling or 
even stumbling on the way. My great hope is 
that these facts will be accepted in the spirit 
they have been given. With this thought in 
view I offer without apology the following 
chapters. 

The Woman 



The Letters of a Woman 
Who Was 



March 31, 1914. 

I have undergone the experience of death 
and I feel completely at a loss; I seek constantly 
to find some means through which I can com- 
municate with my children. I can see them as 
plainly as I could in life, but the vastness of the 
barrier between us is tremendous. 

I can feel that there are heights before me 
which I must climb very soon, but I shall linger 
near my old associations as long as possible. 
During the few hours previous to death I had 
lain in a seemingly unconscious state, although 
in reality my mind had never been more active. 
I reviewed every experience through which I 
had passed until the events of my whole life had 
been placed before me. And when they were 
finished I passed out of the door of a physical 
existence and in at the door of a spiritual life. 

April 1st, 1914. 

Although there is no time or space here, I 
will set it down that these letters may be com- 



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prehensible to you. I am existing in the mental 
sphere which is the state of existence nearest 
the earth. The first sensation that I experienced 
after the so-called death occurred was that of 
being in a profound space. There was only 
that maddening and external space surround- 
ing me on every side. I felt the motion of ob- 
jects and I heard a medley of sound without 
being able to distinguish anything and I fought 
that unseen presence with all my mental 
strength; I was like a person battling for life 
in mid ocean. Then behold! For as suddenly 
as I had become conscious of that invisible 
something I became aware of a strange illu- 
mination and it was possible for me to discern 
the objects that before had been veiled from 
my presence. There was life all around me 
and of various forms. A helper came to help 
me to grasp the surroundings and under his 
guidance I learned to know the different forms 
of life on the mental plane. 

April 2nd, 1914. 

The inhabitants of this plane suffer intensely; 
they all cling to the physical and mourn be- 
cause they have lost that physical vehicle which 
prevents them from functioning in the material 



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sense. We are all drawn to some phase of an 
earthly existence. Many of the entities here 
hover over their earthly grave in perfect agony. 
It is gruesome to look at the inanimate cold 
body which once was the instrument through 
which the true ego found expression. Had it 
been possible for most of us here to have real- 
ized that there was a spiritual existence ahead, 
we could have saved much of this utter misery 
which we are now enduring. During my last 
life on earth I was exceedingly material; how- 
ever, I was not gross. It was the comfort and 
pleasure of life which I loved and which still 
attracts me greatly. Had I been less domineer- 
ing, I might also have escaped this phase of life 
which is my punishment for erring as I did. 
My earthly nature was one of impulse, storm 
and sunshine and it will take a long period of 
time for me to outgrow these faults. I took a 
keen interest in current events and what this 
or that person was doing and I do the same 
here. I am curious about all my surroundings 
and watch the attitudes of the entities with 
keenest interest and sympathy. Many entities 
arrived here at the same time I came, most of 
whom had died from tuberculosis and thought 
it necessary to go on coughing and suffering, 



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and, when they discovered that they had cast 
off that physical shell, their surprise was un- 
believable. One ego, a very young girl, came 
about a week before I came, and she seems in 
great misery; she had left a little crippled brother 
behind her and she tries to talk to him. At 
present she is leaning over his bed imploring 
him to speak to her, but, of course, she is not 
manifest to him and his perfect unconsciousness 
of her presence is causing her new sorrow. This 
same entity died as the result of an automobile 
accident and she seeijis to live over those dread- 
ful experiences. She is completely earthbound 
and will not listen to that voice which is calling 
us to higher and better existences. 

April 30th, 1914. 

I have been unable to write until now, as I 
have been very unhappy; the grief of my chil- 
dren has caused me much discomfort and I 
have been trying to reach them, but they could 
not see me. I wish they could know that I 
am all right and that I would rather they would 
not grieve for me. How dreadful that rigid 
Christian demonstration is! Why go through 
the gruesome ceremony of looking at the cast- 
off shell as it lies in its casket? It means noth- 



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ing. How much better it would be if they 
would realize the consciousness of my present 
existence and help me through their strong de- 
sire to rise above this earthbound condition, 
which is so distressing. 

May 6th, 1914. 

Life here seems endless and I am beginning 
to wonder if I shall ever be able to sever the 
bonds that connect me still with that earthly 
life. Even my favorite chair attracts me and 
I long to sit in it as I used to do. I combat 
these desires, because I know that if I seek to 
satisfy them I will remain in this present state 
of life. That physical body which I cast off is 
slowly disintegrating and it is indeed painful to 
look upon it as it is very difficult to make my- 
self realize that it is as the shell a little new 
born chicken casts off and amounts to nothing 
more. One becomes greatly attached to that 
vehicle and I hope my experiences will help you 
living beings to know the futility of letting the 
material absorb your entire attention. The en- 
tities here are all working out of their own in- 
dividual earthly attachments and desires and 
they do not greatly concern themselves with 
the suffering of those around them. This is 



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especially true if they have remained here any 
length of time. Entities just arriving are far 
more susceptible to the vibrations and are curi- 
ous to know about every phase of existence 
here. The novelty soon wears off and they set 
themselves to work out of this state of exist- 
ence. 

December 10th, 1914. 

I have gone through many experiences since 
my last letter and am about to ascend to the 
fourth astral plane, where I will take up my 
spiritual or astral evolution. That physical shell 
which I cast off nine months ago has disinte- 
grated and I have lost all desire to function on 
the physical plane. My family has ceased to 
grieve. My unhappiness is over, and now I 
will ascend to better things. Now that I am 
able to look back over previous events, the one 
incident that impresses me most is that of my 
existence here in the spiritual world before. 
When I was called upon to assume a physical 
existence the last time I did so very unwillingly 
and had to be forced to accept it as the only 
way that could be, as it was necessary for me 
to live in the physical state many more times; 
but the spiritual life was so satisfying that I 



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dreaded to leave it for the sharp discomfort of 
the physical body. I remember now of looking 
into my future existences and seeing plainly the 
experiences through which I was to pass, but 
when the time for physical rebirth came I lost 
the consciousness of all things spiritual and I 
completely forgot that unwillingness to descend 
to a material life until physical death again 
loosened the bonds and I was permitted to re- 
view and digest those occurrences again. 

January 1st, 1916. 

I am now existing on the fourth plane and 
it is vastly different from that state of existence 
I have left. This plane is the intermediate one 
and is where the masses coming from the earth 
begin their astral evolution. In looking at the 
physical existence from here it looks cold and 
uncomfortable and I have no wish to retrace 
the ground between us. It is the beginning of 
a new year and there is much boisterous gaiety 
on the physical plane. The garish lights and 
music are attracting the human lot; even my 
own children are participating in this mawkish 
pleasure and every one is seemingly enjoying it. 
How very near it all is and yet how far removed 
from this existence! 



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March 15th, 1916. 

It has been two years since I passed from the 
physical existence and I am only now beginning 
to learn the knowledge that is essential to pro- 
mote spiritual growth. Some entities are, of 
course, much more evolved than others and it 
is the same with the vegetable and animal in a 
lesser sense. Each state of existence is trans- 
ferred to the planes most suited to its own 
individual state of maturity. Man must carve 
out his own evolution and through only intense 
suffering or spiritual illumination can he gain 
exalted heights. Misery, grief and despair all 
teach their lesson and it is necessary to spirit- 
ual growth that they be learned at some period 
of one's evolution. 

March 21st, 1916. 

The object of these letters is to give a 
helping hand to humanity and to teach you the 
glory of going on with banners flying. The 
great blessings you will receive through pro- 
gressing in all consciousness of the truth is 
greater than I can impart to you. The fine 
points of evolution that have been so cunningly 
worked out are almost more than the human 
mind is capable of conceiving. We are all con- 



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scious of the fact that there is absolute justice 
in every phase of life and on every plane. 
These powerful scales must balance; every ac- 
count has to be paid in the fullest measure. 
There is only one way and one goal; some reach 
it sooner through seeking constantly for that 
spiritual awakening, while others, the masses, in 
fact are forced forward in the steady march of 
evolution as I have been through misery. It 
should be a source of comfort to every human 
being to learn and progress spiritually. How- 
ever, this is usually not the case and misery 
becomes the whip lash that drives humanity 
forward. 

April 9th, 1916. 

It has been a constant source of pleasure to 
me of late to review my former experiences and 
to compare them all and find out just how 
much I have progressed. I seem to have gained 
constantly and the adepts have kept me under 
close surveillance for many hundreds of years 
that one day I might become the channel for 
their great work. The entities here are all 
reviewing and digesting their former experiences 
just as I am. In being able to look back upon 
these former lives it becomes a teacher to us and 



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we learn not to do the things that retard our 
growth. 

April 15th, 1916. 

What wonderful things do happen. A great 
and splendid Being has come among us to-day, 
imparting courage and strength to all. I never 
knew that there could be an entity of such 
grandeur. He reflects the glory of the Master. 
His countenance is more beautiful than light. 
He is on his way to help the sufferers of Europe. 
I shall live in the radiance he has left behind 
him and shall strive to gain that state of perfec- 
tion more than I have ever before striven for 
anything. 

April 20th, 1916. 

Many helpers are rushing to the battlefields 
to help the wounded and dying soldiers and I 
will relate some of their experiences a little later. 
The effect of the hideous death dealing instru- 
ments is terrible and the earth seems in an up- 
heaval of devilishness and hate. The merciless- 
ness and callousness with which the soldiers kill 
each other is revolting in the extreme. How- 
ever these conditions, the dying and suffering 
are all essential in that the world will be made 



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to realize the futility of wrong living and wrong 
thinking. These men who are dying and those 
who have died will return to be born again 
cleansed of some of the foulness of human 
nature. Every phase of this terrible war is 
working good for the coming generations, for 
the world was becoming sluggish and people 
were bent on their round of pleasure. The 
loathsome vices of the present day are appalling 
and it is only through this very suffering that 
the world can be brought to change its per- 
spective. The little children who are being left 
fatherless and the mothers who have had to 
endure the agony of parting with their husbands 
never to meet again during this life, are simply 
working out karma which they generated in 
previous incarnations. When these debts are 
all paid evolution will have taken a mighty 
stride ahead and one of the darkest hours will 
have passed. There is a source of great com- 
fort in knowing that while to-day we are paying 
debts, to-morrow and the days in the future are 
clear and it is entirely in our own hands to 
what use we will put them. We can generate 
good karma or evil and it behooves us to keep 
to the illuminated path of righteousness if we 
wish to escape working out of more karma. 



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The gross and material things cannot endure; 
they are only temporal and the only advance- 
ment that really counts is that which will 
enable one to comprehend the true existence. 
Perfection is in the far distance to be sure, but 
one can gain it much sooner through working 
intelligently and in harmony with the law. 

April 21st, 1916. 

The helpers have been extremely busy to- 
day; many hundreds of soldiers have been killed 
and wounded. It is very difficult for these 
soldiers to become quiet and it sometimes takes 
much time to convince them that they have 
left their physical body behind them. Andre, 
a young Frenchman of twenty years, has been 
especially troublesome. He was shot down by 
a German major and his hatred toward that 
particular soldier made itself manifest when he 
looked down on the battlefield and saw the 
Germans breaking through the French lines; 
he plunged among them and struck in all his 
ugly fury at them. However, it did not help 
him and did not affect the fighting men, because 
he had been unable to materialize. His fury 
was especially directed at the German major at 
whom he repeatedly struck. It is indeed beau- 



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tiful and noble, the work of these helpers and it 
would be impossible to keep order without 
them; they lighten the suffering of soldiers who 
are dying. A young English soldier, David 
Mallowe by name, was terribly mutilated and 
left in an unconscious condition among the 
other unfortunates to die, during a recent battle. 
One of the helpers who had been waiting to 
assist stepped forward in the form of a human 
being and knelt beside him. He stroked the 
feverish head and when the soldier regained 
consciousness he was there to lessen his suffer- 
ing. Presently he attempted to sit up but fell 
back moaning and gasping in the utter agony 
that the effort caused. The helper threw a veil 
over his mind and caused that physical shell to 
be cast off. This same helper assisted David 
when he became conscious that he was no long- 
er existing on the physical plane, to grasp his 
surroundings and then lulled him into a state 
of semiconsciousness that he might rest after 
the ordeal through which he had passed. A 
recent experience of a French lieutenant is also 
worth relating that it may prove the power of 
these invisible helpers. There is no such thing 
as luck; every occurrence has to be guided 
through help, and help is always given to those 



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who deserve it. This lieutenant was riding 
towards headquarters and had to cut in at the 
rear of the German camp. He was seen and 
several of the German soldiers immediately 
pursued him mounted on fresh horses. In the 
possession of the French lieutenant were valu- 
able dispatches and it meant disgrace if he 
allowed himself to be captured. He urged his 
mount on, he gave no thought to his personal 
danger; his one idea was to get the papers to 
his commander. Finally he reached a river; he 
stopped, hesitated and sent the horse lunging 
in. The Germans aimed and fired; bullets 
rained around the Frenchman without once 
finding their mark. One German soldier, Hans 
Swartz, by name, pursued him way out into the 
river and was killed when his horse stumbled 
and threw him and then trampled him to death 
in his fright. The lieutenant reached the shore 
safely although his mount was completely ex- 
hausted and died on reaching the shore. He, 
however, staggered for hours through the forest 
and was finally rescued by a brother soldier who 
was out scouting. He reached headquarters 
and delivered his dispatches and was decorated 
for bravery by his general. Had he been less 
brave and less deserving of help he would have 



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been killed many times over. An invisible 
hand guided him out of his danger and turned 
the rain of bullets from him. These incidents 
are constantly occurring and will continue to 
occur to the end of the great world conflict. 
Help is given to every nation equally and 
wherever it is deserved. God is not on the 
side of the Allies more than he is on the side 
of the Germans. He knoweth all and seeth all, 
and judgeth wisely. 

May 4th, 1916. 

I have been directed to correct a view point 
that has become general and one which is de- 
cidedly wrong and unfair. Of late race hatred 
has become very pronounced and it is being 
directed at Germany who is fighting against 
such great odds. It is so human to judge from 
one's narrow and cramped point of view. I am 
in possession through the highest sources of the 
truth regarding this matter. The great world 
war is responsible for much of the hatred be- 
tween the nations involved. All nations are 
equally to blame no matter what any human 
being says regarding the subject, that fact re- 
mains fixed and settled. But when an entity 
who is supposed to be evolving spiritually lets 



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material motives and earthly hatred enter into 
his writing he is retarding his own evolution. 
There is no nationality in the spiritual existence. 
The cause of this conflict began centuries 
ago and the discord became more apparent with 
each succeeding generation. In the near future 
there will be peace and little will have been 
gained materially by any country. However, 
from a spiritual standpoint much has been 
gained, since long standing karmic debts have 
been paid; the trumpet has sounded and evolu- 
tion will have taken a long step in advance. 
Nietzsche is not responsible for the conditions 
that exist at present. His philosophy was in- 
deed a material one and he met a sad fate, but 
the present condition of affairs would have been, 
had Nietzsche never existed. There is a pro- 
nounced belief in paganism among certain sec- 
tions of Germans and they openly flaunt their 
belief; but this very same condition exists also 
in England and in France although it is to be 
sure covered over partially with the gloss of 
religion. I merely make these statements that 
things may be properly balanced. I wish to 
correct the wrong ideas and impressions that 
the masses have formed. There should be no 
race hatred. You are all human and each one 



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is doing his share to advance the evolution of 
soul. You are each and all a spark of the great 
infinite mind, God, that created every living 
creature. 

June 6th, 1916. 

To-day I am going to tell you something 
about life on the astral planes. There are eight 
planes, not including the mental sphere which 
is the lowest of all spiritual planes. The first 
and second planes are passed over by most 
persons. Only the very lowest types of the 
human races require to spend any time on 
these. The savage races and the least evolved 
of the white races evolve in these low spheres. 
The third plane is where drunkards, sensualists 
and criminals begin their astral evolution and 
they go through intense agony, often seeking 
to gratify their earthly desires. If such an 
entity succeeds in getting possession of a human 
being he can satisfy his cravings to a certain 
extent and it is that invariably which causes 
men to drink intoxicating liquors to excess or 
to overeat. However, these low egos do not 
seek to control highly developed or sensitive 
persons. They are only attracted to those of 
their own caliber. A sensualist can gratify his 



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loathsome desires through gaining possession of 
a low type of human being and it is that which 
causes many of the terribly depraved and ut- 
terly horrible incidents which take place in the 
world. Persons of great strength of character 
and strong will are never tempted into the 
possession of these vile entities and for this 
reason every person should begin to acquire a 
knowledge of life as it really exists. When you 
allow yourselves to go on in a maze of material- 
ism and worldly pleasure you are only existing 
in the unreal things and still have the greatest 
truth to learn. I wish also to explain some- 
thing about the greatness of the thought force. 
Every thought that leaves one's consciousness 
generates new matter according to the char- 
acter of that thought, either for good or for 
evil, and rebounds back at the sender with double 
its strength. A greater part of the human race 
chooses the path of least resistance, but if you 
could only realize what it leads to you would 
willingly climb the steep cliffs to avoid the 
greater suffering that it is the lot of those to 
work out of who choose to glide through life, 
never thinking of that existence in the future, 
knowing little about it and caring less, for when 
once the wheels of evil actions and dissipation 



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are set in motion it is difficult to stop them. 
They move slowly at first and the transgressor 
continues blindly on his way, never dreaming 
of the consequences. The forces begin to move 
more rapidly and still the erring human mind 
believes itself capable of controlling the situa- 
tion until these forces become as pounding 
demons and it is beyond the power of human 
will to control them. When men are influ- 
enced by these evil forces and driven before 
the storm they become weakened creatures and 
abhorrent wrecks which the creatorintended 
to be human beings full of vitality and strength 
and possessing a purpose in life. This truth 
should be a solemn teacher of which is the 
way to pursue and indeed I hope that it 
will impart its lesson. After an entity reaches 
the higher planes evolution becomes much 
more pronounced and the desire for the ma- 
terial pleasures exists no more. On the fourth 
and fifth planes the masses of humanity begin 
their evolution after the so-called death occurs. 
Entities existing on these planes have no morbid 
desires and their influence is always good if 
exerted over human beings at all. The sixth, 
seventh and eighth planes consist of more 
highly evolved egos and that existence is still 



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farther removed from the physical plane. On 
the seventh and eighth planes entities are con- 
scious of the human race only when the entity 
has recently passed through the experience of 
death and wishes to console his dear ones whom 
he has left behind him. The entities on the 
eighth plane are of the highest astral types and 
are superior in wisdom and knowledge. In 
speaking of planes I do not mean to give the 
impression of an existence such as the physical; 
each spiritual plane is a state of consciousness 
and it is according to the development of the 
ego into which state of consciousness he will be 
sent when the physical shell is cast off. 

June 10th, 1916. 

In looking over these letters I feel that 
perhaps I have had a tendency to preach. I 
do not wish to preach. I mean these letters as 
a deep appeal only. I appeal to the reason 
which you all possess either in a small or large 
sense. I long for you to see the truth. By 
investigating these facts that I have put down 
you will find them all logical and true. It is 
that you may possess a clearer insight into these 
truths that this little book is being written. A 
great majority of the human race exists in ignor- 



A Woman Who Was 33 

ance of the actual truth about life. Theosophy 
has done great work in enlightening the world 
and those who earnestly study and strive for 
the knowledge of the true existence will be 
rewarded for their efforts. 

June 16th, 1916. 

Many things have taken place since I last 
wrote a letter. The Master of Light has again 
been among us. He teaches courage and pa- 
tience and helps every ego to rise above his own 
vibration and causes us to progress more rap- 
idly. There is going to be need soon for 
highly developed entities and he is coaching 
the most highly developed ones among us to 
gain more knowledge that we may assist in 
the formation of the coming cycle. The love 
and truth that radiates from His being is won- 
derful and the radiance He leaves behind is as 
the sunshine and we live in it until He comes 
again. He departed in a cloud of light to other 
planes where He will teach the other entities 
as He has taught us. 

June 17th, 1916. 

I am going to tell you something of the 
coming race or cycle as the Master of Light has 



34 The Letters Of 

told us. Theosophists and various other cults 
believe that beautiful souls have died in the 
war that they might be reincarnated soon, to be 
of assistance in the coming cycle. They are mis- 
guided in this belief. Partially beautiful souls 
have died during service to their countries, but 
it was to hasten their own individual evolution 
that they endured physical death. Perfected 
souls or entities who have developed highly 
enough will reincarnate into the new race and 
it is these great almost perfect beings who will 
be teachers and masters in the new cycle. The 
cycle in which we are living at the present time 
has been an exceedingly material one. The 
pendulum swings both ways; one cycle will be 
material and the next spiritual. The world 
to-day possesses more spiritual knowledge than 
it has ever possessed before, but it will not 
accept this knowledge; it desires only the ma- 
terial pleasures and material power. The spirit- 
ual truths have been brushed into the back- 
ground and it was only the great war which 
could change conditions and force the human 
race to realize the futility of wrongdoing. The 
new cycle will be one of great spirituality and 
the new race through the intense suffering that 
it will have passed through will grasp the beau- 



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tiful truths of life hungrily. Even in this 
generation the new race is beginning to form 
and there are a few selected cults which are 
living according to the true law and life as they 
understand it. The masses of the present age 
are greatly like the woman who started out to 
visit a friend who had recently returned to the 
city. The woman had looked forward with 
keen anticipation to the pleasure of an after- 
noon spent in the company of this friend. So 
when the time came she boarded a street car and 
on nearing what she supposed to be her destina- 
tion began to seek in her purse for the book that 
contained the friend's address. After a futile 
search she turned hopelessly to the conductor 
for assistance. In a vague manner she remem- 
bered the name of the avenue. The conductor 
directed her accordingly and she started in 
search of her quest. She got no results and 
after tramping in several directions had to 
return home and secure the address. With this 
firmly clasped in her hand she had no difficulty 
in finding her way, although most of the pre- 
cious time had been spent needlessly and there 
was little time left to spend with the friend. 
And so it is with the people of the earth. You 
start your earthly journey with a faint glimmer 



36 The Letters Of 

of spiritual truth in your possession, but after 
you travel a short distance through life you 
become confused as to which is the proper way 
to pursue and seek assistance. After traveling 
in several different directions you arrive at no 
place and find it necessary to retrace all the 
ground and begin the spiritual journey over 
again. As a consequence much of your valu- 
able time has been wasted and you possess less 
time in which you may develop your spiritual 
nature on earth. If you would avoid making 
this great mistake, cultivate your own spiritual 
intuition and if you follow that which comes 
intuitively you will not need outside assistance 
and will progress far more rapidly. However, 
it is through the sheer force of desire that you 
will be given the power to proceed. 

June 25, 1916. 

Let tranquility reign in God's great soul 
shaping world; all is well and while many things 
appear beyond our ken, in reality life is as an 
open book. "If you wish to possess a knowl- 
edge of life as it really exists, cultivate your in- 
tellect and acquire the desire necessary and all 
things will be made manifest unto you," so 
saith the Master of all intelligence and life. If 



A Woman Who Was 37 

you feel inclined to doubt what I tell you, look 
around at the elements of life, at the grass grow- 
ing under foot, the wheat in the fields and the 
fruit on the trees. Where do they come from? 
You will answer that they have sprung from 
the seed and that is true, but that little seed is 
a spark of the Divine Essence of life, the Great 
Infinite Being who has created every good thing. 
Even the deformed creatures for whom you feel 
such intense pity are part of the great scheme 
of life and they are reaping in this life what 
they have sown during previous incarnations. 
Not a single infliction is caused unjustly and 
every agony that is endured is of its own mak- 
ing and every height we gain, every glory that 
is ours, must be gained through merit. The 
Great Father is not a finite being who doles out 
favors promiscuously. His love is of the most 
supreme order. He is absolutely just and gives 
nothing unless it has been earned. It is the 
habit of some persons to kneel down and pray 
after committing some wrong act. They pray 
for forgiveness for that wrong, but the only 
way in which it can be atoned for is by working 
it out, paying the debt and making the wrong 
act right. As surely as there is a sun and moon 
so is there cause and effect and when the human 



38 The Letters Of 

mind becomes capable of comprehending these 
facts much of the present suffering will de done 
away with. When you commit an act that will 
harm any one, then an effect is forthcoming 
that will make you suffer. And so it is in every 
phase of life whether here or on earth; our every 
act is put on record; every thought that leaves 
our consciousness is recorded in the ahkasic 
records, and in the due course of time we will 
all be given the opportunity of reading them. 
There are perhaps two persons now existing on 
the physical plane who can read these records 
correctly; even an entity is not always capable of 
reading them. 

June 28th, 1916. 

I am writing these letters in such a manner 
that if you were to read one each day several 
times over you would comprehend only part of 
the hidden meaning. There is food for much 
thought in them all. I have written them in 
this way that you may cause your sluggish 
spiritual natures to awaken partially at least. 
St. John said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, he 
that entereth not by the door into the fold of 
the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the 
same is a thief and a robber, but he that entereth 



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in at the door is the shepherd of the sheep and 
to him the porter openeth." He meant that if 
you try to climb to great spiritual heights with- 
out earnest endeavor and through the use of 
material methods you would be as a thief and 
a robber. But if you will enter in at the door 
of spiritual understanding you will gain the true 
consciousness and your mortal perspective will 
no longer be distorted. It is so difficult for the 
average person to understand the true state of 
existence. We are apt to grope blindly as one 
would in a dark room without being able to 
reach the object for which we are seeking. If 
we had an illumination we could find it without 
groping at all and much sooner. It is so with 
the journey of evolution. Some evolve much 
more rapidly than do others, because they are 
conscious of that spiritual illumination which 
lights their way. When you close your eyes to 
these truths it is to evade the reckoning for a 
day perhaps, but it will come in its own good 
time and your regret will be great indeed. Per- 
haps these facts are all dry and uninteresting, 
but if you will only strive to comprehend their 
significance and will seek out the vital truths 
of this existence you will save so much misery. 
I am trying to the utmost of my power to ap- 



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peal to that divine spark which is in each and 
all and every living creature. 

July 2nd, 1916. 

To-day's letter will be how to become the 
pupil of a master. There are very few human 
beings ready to become the pupils. Develop- 
ment of the highest order is essential. The most 
vital necessity is truth; one must be truthful in 
thought and deed. Do not deceive yourself, for 
if you deceive yourself you will deceive others. 
After this difficult but essential lesson has been 
acquired, learn to be unselfish. It is most es- 
sential that one should be entirely unselfish. 
Do not haggle over small things; give them up. 
The master requires the pupil to be above 
argument. It is perhaps the most common of 
human faults and one of the most difficult to 
overcome. The pupil of a master must be ab- 
solutely devoted to the spiritual life, ready and 
willing to give up all material pleasures. He 
will be called upon to endure countless hard- 
ships to test his worth. A very strong will is 
also required, for the way is steep and rough, 
and without a will of tempered steel the pupil 
would fall to the depths. His motto is, "I will," 
and it makes no difference what the master re- 



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quires of the pupil his answer is always "I will." 
The pupil of a master can readily be distin- 
guished from the ordinary human being. He 
goes through life with a purpose and his time is 
filled with worthy employment. The pupil may 
remain under the surveillance of the master dur- 
ing several incarnations before he becomes per- 
spicacious enough to continue the work alone, 
although he must be in a receptive state of 
mind first that he may become a pupil. Some- 
times a pupil is taken on trial if he possesses a 
keen desire to be taught by a master; he is given 
the opportunity, but if his will does not remain 
firm he is discountenanced at once and all further 
communication between the master and him- 
self is cut off. It is like a boy graduating from 
the primary grades at school to the higher ones. 
If by chance he passes the examinations and is 
promoted but cannot keep up the work required, 
he is accordingly sent back to the lower grade 
to learn his lesson more fully. It is that way 
throughout one's lives. We are all forced to 
learn the lessons that have been neglected. 
Everyone must be thoroughly learned before we 
are allowed to leave the physical existence be- 
hind us and it is for this reason that reincarna- 
tion is essential to progression. 



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July 6th, 1916. 

The world is in confusion and there is much 
need of enlightenment; much must be proven 
to the human mind that it will cease erring and 
will be willing to move on according to the law 
of evolution. The Master of Light came among 
us and pointed down at a boy, a young boy not 
more than eighteen, and he said to us, "Behold 
that is the body into which the Christ will 
enter," and he selected two among the souls to 
guard the boy from harm. He has long been 
under the guidance of a master who is prepar- 
ing his body for the reception of the Christ and 
that body is now in readiness for the Christ 
who will soon come again. And the Master of 
Light said further, "He is now ready to give up 
his vehicle to the Christ. He shall assist in the 
new cycle and shall be as my right hand and 
will do as I bid. His will is as steel tempered 
fine. His aura showeth only the light of strength 
and purity. I have said my word. Let it be 
remembered." And so it was made known to 
us into what body the future Christ would enter. 
The teacher who will come must possess a wide 
outlook that he may appeal to the present age. 
He will be expected to discuss politics and 
economics. He must take an interest in the 



A Woman Who Was 43 

present day mode of living. These things have 
all been met and the coming teacher will appeal 
to all alike. The coming of this teacher will 
mark a new era in the history of the world. 

July 13th, 1916. 

To relieve the apparent dryness of my work 
I am going to relate some intensely interesting 
anecdotes of different entities. It will be of 
interest to many of you to compare these ex- 
periences with my own. About a year ago a 
woman of great intellectual strength came here. 
She had been a leader of New York society and 
was completely absorbed in the material things. 
However, during the last days of her life on 
earth she changed her attitude. Through in- 
tense physical suffering she was made to see the 
folly of letting the material existence take full 
possession of the ego. She lost all desire to re- 
main amid the worldly luxuries that surrounded 
her and eagerly took up that spiritual life that 
awaited her. After the physical shell was cast 
off she arose to good things and began evolution 
here in all consciousness and grace, appreciat- 
ing the spiritual and casting down the material. 
She did not find it necessary to remain in the 
mental sphere at all as the physical left no at- 



44 The Letters Of 

traction for her. The only unpleasant sensa- 
tion that she experienced was when the family 
and friends mourned over that inanimate body 
which had once been the instrument through 
which she had found expression. She says that 
she would not go back to the physical existence 
as she left it and is perfectly content to continue 
her spiritual evolution here. Of course, after a 
long period of time she will return again to that 
physical, but her understanding and conscious- 
ness will remain with her to a certain extent as 
that is the way her nature naturally inclines. 
Another rather interesting experience is that of 
Earl Kitchener, who was the great military 
leader of England. He was a man of great 
strength of intellect and character. He had 
been a deep thinker, a scholar and decidedly a 
man of sterling worth. He was a man whom 
most persons found it very difficult to approach. 
He accepted few men as friends and their worth 
had to be fully proven to him before he accepted 
them as his own equal. At heart he was a man 
of great kindness until the great conflict came. 
Then his mind became intent upon slaughter. 
The desire to gain victories for his country at 
any cost caused him to forget entirely that the 
Divine Father rules over one country as well as 



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another and is just to all. When death over- 
took Earl Kitchener it found him unprepared. 
His mind was in a perfect chaos or upheaval and 
his spiritual nature was entirely dominated by 
the mortal mind. It was his lot to enter the 
mental sphere and work away from the desire 
to kill and gain material victories. His suffer- 
ing was intense. He suffered every agony of 
soul that it is possible to endure. His spiritual 
and real self battled with that physical self un- 
til the real and eternal mastered the mortal 
mind. When the soul gained possession he as- 
cended into the sixth plane and his being has 
been glorified by that experience. His perspec- 
tive is entirely changed; his being radiates pa- 
tience and kindness, so that dreadful experience 
of death has been to him enlightenment. He 
has gained a power that before he never had 
possessed and this great soul is hastening on 
toward perfection more rapidly than could have 
been hoped for had death not overtaken that 
physical body. He is deeply penitent for hav- 
ing had a part in the conflict but that had been 
ordained and no power of his could have pre- 
vented the war. Another type of entity is that 
who when physical birth occurred was exceed- 
ingly spiritual. Such an entity would have to 



46 The Letters Of 

be highly evolved, almost ready to leave incar- 
nation behind him. This type would lead a 
spiritual life, would think of his neighbors' com- 
fort more than his own and would go out of his 
way to help those who need it. Such a man 
was Elbert Hubbard and he has arisen to almost 
perfect spirituality. He is an inspiration to 
those around him and many entities absorb of 
his spiritual strength. His pleasure is that of 
doing for others and it is indeed the greatest, 
noblest pleasure of all pleasures. These types 
are the ones constantly coming here. The latter 
type is to be sure a very rare one, as few human 
beings have reached a high state of develop- 
ment. There is first the very material type, 
second the ordinary material, third the com- 
bination of both, fourth a very spiritual type. 
The mode of functioning in our spiritual exist- 
ence is, of course, ethereal. We do retain bodies 
similar to the physical one in appearance com- 
posed of ethereal matter. We do not function 
in a physical sense. It is not necessary in the 
spiritual world to give any thought to the com- 
fort of the body; since that body is not physical 
it needs no attention such as the physical one 
would need. We do not eat or sleep or get 
tired or sick here; life is formed of much greater 



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things. We have far busier lives than do you 
who are existing in the material world. Just as 
you have steady employment so have we work 
which keeps us busy all the time we remain here. 
We help each other in many ways. Where one 
entity is bearing a heavy burden the other will 
help to make it lighter. These burdens we en- 
dure are all mental or spiritual ones. We are 
not immune from impatience and anger here, al- 
though as we advance we lose these faults. 
Entities of a lower character who have certain 
attachments or desires can satisfy their crav- 
ings to a certain extent in some instances. These 
egos are many years in outgrowing material 
desires while a few work out of this phase of life 
very rapidly. Entities such as sensualists, glut- 
tons or drunkards seek to gain control of human 
beings of a low caliber such as themselves. When 
these entities take control of a human being 
they can satisfy their own desires and this is 
invariably the cause of human beings, eating and 
drinking to excess. Drunkards are usually those 
who are lead by a malign or evil entity. It is 
exceedingly dangerous to let such an entity gain 
control, as in time the person who is controlled 
loses his personality in that of the ego and is no 
longer capable of controlling himself. He is 



48 The Letters Of 

completely at the mercy of the evil spirit and it 
is almost impossible to throw off that influence. 
It has been done, however, and if the person 
will set out with the firm purpose of breaking 
away from the influence, he can do it, although 
the battle is a very long and hard one. These 
evil entities often get control of children and in 
such instances cause them to become morally 
perverted and irresponsible. There are just as 
many dangerous personalities and influences here 
as there are on earth and they are more power- 
ful, because they can watch every opportunity 
and you may be sure they never overlook one. 
These malign entities are of the lowest types and 
are only in the lowest state of development. The 
reason for which I am explaining these matters 
is that you who may read this book will be in 
possession of true facts and can accordingly 
guard against these dangerous entities and in- 
fluences. 

July 20th, 1916. 

Reincarnation has been so widely discussed 
that I think it will be worth while to use it as a 
topic for this letter. Persons are likely to ask: 
Why is incarnation essential to evolution? 
How can a man or woman gain an education 



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without going to school? How do human be- 
ings broaden their outlook? Only by coming 
in contact with other human beings. When a 
woman remains at home too much she gets in a 
rut so to speak and even loses all interest in 
affairs outside the home. This type of woman 
does not expand; she is not healthy and her 
viewpoint is decidedly narrow and cramped. 
It is so with the soul, or ego; without incarna- 
tion the soul could not expand; it takes the 
combination of the material and the spiritual 
to round out and perfect the ego. Incarnation 
is only a small part of the experiences of the 
soul, but it is quite as essential as evolution in 
the spiritual world. Gold in its raw state is 
practically without value; after it has gone 
through various refining processes it comes out 
polished and beautiful and is very valuable. 
It is so with the ego; in the beginning the ego 
was only a small undeveloped atom and seem- 
ingly had no outlook or future, but through 
hundreds of years of refining that ego gradually 
gained consciousness. This evolution continues 
until the development has reached the state of 
humanity. When the ego has grown past the 
lower kingdoms it becomes an individual and 
has a distinct personality of its own. It is then 



50 The Letters Or 

reincarnated as a person. This soul must also 
evolve until it has reached high enough spirit- 
ual development to discard incarnation. So 
it is necessary for the ego to experience human 
emotion as well as spiritual that he may possess 
full knowledge and insight and understanding 
of life as it really exists. The sacred laws have 
been so finely worked out that not the slightest 
thing that is essential to spiritual perfection 
has been neglected. The soul, or ego, has its 
most vital experiences after life on the physical 
plane is over, but when the soul has reached 
high enough development to evolve only in a 
spiritual sense he is almost a perfect being. 
This is the simplest manner in which I can ex- 
plain the cause of incarnation. It is a broad 
subject and the book which is to follow this one 
will explain every detail and give the cause in 
such a manner as has never before been given. 

July 25th, 1916. 

My dear earth people, I feel great sympathy 
for you all. The intense heat of the physical 
plane is quite unbearable, I know. So many 
little babies have come here. Dear little crea- 
tures that have been unable to withstand the 
discomfort of the physical plane. Helpers have 



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been busy making suitable places for these little 
ones who will return to the physical very soon 
again to take up the work that has been in- 
terrupted. It is quite sad to see these little 
babies seek for their mothers. They do not 
seem able to comprehend at first that they are 
not existing in the natural sense. After they 
are soothed by helpers they become perfectly 
content and await in patience for the time to 
return to the physical again. In most cases 
these children return within a very short time to 
the earthly existence. These entities are, of 
course, developed, although for a time they 
realize only their limitations. Every phase of 
life both here and on earth is different in its 
aspect and it takes these various phases to 
complete and round out the true existence. 

August 6th, 1916. 

I have had in mind for some time a few rules 
I would give the human being to live by. You 
must all know that until you are master of 
your physical body you cannot hope to be mas- 
ter of the mind and you will find that until the 
physical desires are put under foot the spiritual 
nature cannot develop. If human beings would 
only follow certain set rules or self laws and 



52 The Letters Of 

would never disobey them, they would find the 
way could be made much easier. You should 
plan to arise at a certain hour each morning and 
always do it. Eat less or no animal flesh at all, 
if that is possible. Do not drink intoxicating 
drinks. Drink is a brawler and wine a mocker 
and whosoever erreth thereby is not wise. 
Christ drank no beverage except the pure juice 
of the grape. Live clean lives and keep your 
intellects clear. When you have gained con- 
trol of your physical selves thus far, learn to 
control your errant thoughts. This is far more 
difficult, but through concentration and strong 
purpose you may accomplish even this. When 
you have met these things, the spiritual nature 
is ready for conscious development. Self-sac- 
rifice is most essential to the evolution of the 
ego and must be learned at the very beginning. 
The path of conscious development is not an 
easy one to follow, but nothing in the universe 
that is worth while was ever gained without 
effort. Christ sweat spiritual blood for his 
fellow creatures and so in a sense do we all 
sweat spiritual blood when first making an at- 
tempt to gain our foothold. The human beings 
that live for the material pleasures only and 
accept the physical comfort at the expense of 



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the spiritual do not give the higher nature even 
a glimmer of an opportunity to make itself 
manifest. In these instances it is only through 
soul agony that the transgressors are brought to 
time. It is said in the Bible, "Fret not thyself 
because of evil doers; neither be thou envious 
of them that work unrighteousness; for they 
shall be cut down like the grass/' meaning that 
you who are developing in all consciousness of 
the truth should not worry over the person who 
is going along the easy road, for the path of 
pleasure leadeth to destruction. The road of 
righteousness is a hilly and rough one when one 
travels it in lack of understanding, but there is 
always the comfort of knowing that you are 
gaining in godliness and will at some distant 
time be a perfect being. It is only through 
honest work and effort that you can gain perfect 
spirituality. Every intelligent person should be 
conscious of possessing a purpose in life and 
should do his utmost to strengthen that pur- 
pose. There are great difficulties to be sur- 
mounted both here and on earth and it takes 
both courage and strength of purpose to over- 
come them. When human beings become hum- 
ble and forget self they will have taken a step 
ahead. All persons are full of their individual 



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importance and are so very egotistical that they 
cannot accept teachings which jar them out of 
their rut or interfere with their own limited 
perceptions. I do not write these truths be- 
cause of a desire to preach, but because the 
world has great need of help in this present hour 
and I am endeavoring to give some of the neces- 
sary assistance. There are closer connections 
now between the spiritual and the material than 
ever before and every possible channel is being 
put to work. Psychic phenomena are being more 
widely discussed than ever before and persons 
are more eager to accept these facts and I will 
say that in the very near future a pronounced 
change will be seen and felt throughout the 
physical world. 

August 16th, 1916. 

I have been exceedingly busy getting to- 
gether sufficient true data that I might be able 
to explain to you the different forms of mate- 
rializations. There is so much misunderstanding 
regarding materialized beings that in a clear 
condensed way it should be stated. There is 
first the shell or cast off astral body of the 
entity who has taken existence in the mental 
or devachanic sphere. This shell floats around 



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in the astral world until it finally disappears in 
much the manner that the physical body disin- 
tegrates. This shell is what is commonly seen 
around the medium's cabinet. It is an evil 
thing since it is entirely controlled by outside 
forces and is galvanized into seeming intelli- 
gence through these material forces. It is a 
thing to avoid coming in contact with, since 
unconsciously you are responsible for its com- 
ing. This form of materialization is the com- 
monest one. The second form is the true form 
or ego, who materializes. The entity often 
makes himself manifest immediately after death, 
especially if the friends and near relatives are 
exceedingly emotional in their expression of 
grief for the departed one. The entity will then 
seek to get to them, since their outpouring of 
lamentation causes him great discomfort. He 
is very seldom able to appear, however, before 
anyone except those persons who possess clair- 
voyant power and these persons are very few 
in number. The departed entity also is some- 
times found haunting the earth grave, agonizing 
over the still physical body, although, when he 
learns the futility of this, he ceases to linger 
there. It only prolongs the earth bound condi- 
tion and keeps him in bondage to the material. 



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The higher astral types also materialize on cer- 
tain occasions. Such incidents are more rare, 
however. Not long ago a young girl was in a 
very bad train wreck. Her father had passed 
over many years previous to this, although he 
had kept watch over this young daughter 
always. When the two trains collided he ma- 
terialized and took his child out from under a 
burning car. She saw her father plainly al- 
though when she was found to be safely removed 
several feet from the accident no one could 
account for it and the girl herself believed the 
father to have been only a vision she had seen 
in her semiconscious state. In cases of extreme 
suffering these entities often materialize and 
are afterward accounted for by delirium of the 
suiferer when in reality they are real entities 
and not weird fantasies of a tired or feverish 
brain. Also before physical death occurs a 
dying person is often heard to say, "I see the 
most beautiful angel or I see such and such a 
dear one," who had passed before. Human 
beings have never accounted for these appari- 
tions which indeed are not apparitions at all 
but are helpers waiting to assist that soul 
through the door that leads to a spiritual exist- 
ence. These are the first two classes of mate- 



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rializations. The third is that of the helper or 
adept who can and does materialize at his will. 
He does good every place. He can be in New 
York in one hour and in London the next. 
Often these helpers take the form of an ordi- 
nary human being and help the dwellers of the 
Ghetto or the slums in New York. One in- 
stance worth relating is that which X. K. had 
in Chicago in a low district. X. K. is a master 
and does a vast amount of good work. In this 
case he materialized as a minister of the church 
and was apparently calling on the members of 
these families to make observations. In one 
particular family he found disease rampant. 
The father and mother were both in a deplor- 
able syphilitic condition. There were six chil- 
dren all huddled up in various corners. Their 
mother was giving the youngest child stale beer. 
Both were in a pitifully intoxicated condition. 
The father was a man of great stature and small 
brain. He was a cruel, almost animal-like 
creature under whose evil influence the mother 
had become an abject wreck. When X. K. 
appeared at their door he was bidden to depart 
by the father. He slipped in and waved the man 
into a corner. The man felt the powerful vibra- 
tions of the master and cowered in utter fear. 



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The filth and loathsome uncleanliness was appal- 
ling. The whole family was evidently resigned 
to slowly dying of absolute decay and unclean- 
liness. The master stepped up to the woman 
and took the child who was about nineteen 
months of age. It was blue and bony and 
almost ethereal in appearance from lack of 
nourishing food and proper care. It was dying, 
although it had escaped from the disease which was 
slowly eating up the parents. X. K. set to work 
removing as much of the filth as was possible. 
He cleaned the children and through his own 
method he brought the woman out of her 
stupor. For many weeks he continued to go 
to this family as a minister. The children were 
sent to school; the little ailing child was given 
the proper care and the father has been brought 
to know of the Grace of God. He now works 
steadily and keeps a fine family together. He 
and his wife were both healed and entirely 
cured of the deplorable disease affecting them. 
They have taken quarters in a good neighbor- 
hood and the father carries a balance in the 
savings bank. Such an incident is almost 
unbelievable, but in reality it is true and is only 
an example of our adept's wonderful work. I 
could name countless other cases which from 



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a material standpoint are accounted for as 
chance work when in reality they are guided 
by these superhuman helpers. The world is 
constantly receiving help in this manner and it 
accepts blindly without knowing the true source 
of all supply. The fourth and last form of 
materialization is that of the entity who exists 
in the devachanic state. He no longer has a 
material body, but through sending thoughts 
into the hearts of the people, in such a manner 
warnings and premonitions are given. When 
you suddenly feel a kind or exceedingly beauti- 
ful thought you may know the vibration of 
these entities has carried into your own con- 
sciousness, and their work is beautiful and 
helpful. Every fine impulse and unselfish de- 
sire you feel is strengthened and helped to mature 
through these entities' vibrations. The deva- 
chanic existence is commonly called the Heaven 
World although in the sense you would take it, 
it is not the Heaven you read of in the Bible. 
It is the resting place after the many incarna- 
tions on earth and after countless spiritual 
existences. When the entities reach a certain 
high point of evolution they are given a com- 
plete rest and in this Heaven World every dream 
is realized. No splendor is too great to realize 



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there. Your every desire is fulfilled and life is 
peaceful and beautiful and the entities are con- 
scious of the great outpouring of love from the 
Logos. There are above this Heaven existence 
many great planes to which these entities 
ascend in the due course of time. These 
different forms of spiritual consciousness are 
almost beyond human conception. The form 
of the beings who dwell in the Heaven World, 
is entirely soul and thought. There no longer 
remains an ethereal form which resembles the 
physical in appearance. It is quite unexplain- 
able since mortal mind cannot conceive of an 
existence without a body and it takes hundreds 
of years to acquire the fundamental truths of 
existence and laws as they really are, not as 
they appear to be. Everything the human eye 
is capable of seeing is called real, when actually 
the objects you can focus your gaze upon are 
temporal, and not only that, but sight is not 
accurate and these objects are different than 
they appear to be. That which is true appears 
to be not and that which is not true appears to 
be. You all know that the average human 
being knows little or nothing of astronomy. 
To a student it is a pleasure and not in the 
least difficult to look at and perceive the in- 



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visible planets. And it is the same with the 
realities of life. A student of the true life can 
perceive the meaning of the invisible when the 
average material human being gropes blindly 
without being able to absolutely comprehend 
the invisible which he cannot see and feel with 
his physical senses. We that appear to you as 
non-existent are more vitally alive and full of 
the great purpose than you can ever possibly be 
during your present existence. The average 
smug Christian is to be pitied and no less. 
He does not comprehend the spiritual teachings 
of his own religion and what could be more 
pitiful than that, to accept and believe in some- 
thing entirely false. Christ never meant his 
words to be taken literally. He was not cruci- 
fied in the flesh but in the spirit. How few 
living beings grasp that fact. When I look 
down upon the lack of understanding and in- 
sight it wrings my soul to its depths and I reach 
out my arms in supplication to you all. You 
cannot hear the voice, because the voice of God 
is still and small and the howl of evil is drown- 
ing it. When Christ set forth the command- 
ments he meant you to accept them and live 
according to them; but they were not to be 
taken literally either. The old fashioned Chris- 



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tian idea of "Thou shalt not labor on the seventh 
day" is meant in a spiritual way. It does not 
mean that you must sit in meditation merely, 
but it means that you shall do no evil thing. 
Do not harm your brother. Do not slander 
your neighbor. Any wholesome pleasure is 
yours and it is quite as necessary to be good on 
Monday as it is on the Sabbath. Every day is 
holy in the sight of the Creator and you cannot 
pay your sins by meditating on the Sabbath 
and then immediately sinning when the week 
days start. If you would only take up your 
Bible in a sane rational manner and seek for the 
spiritual enlightenment it contains, it would 
work a miracle, but it is rarely done; conse- 
quently the human lot is a hard one and there 
is much to be worked out yet. 

August 20th, 1916. 

I am intensely interested in the newest relig- 
ion, Christian Science. It has a great many 
splendid points, although Mrs. Eddy's view 
point was limited, and commercializing the heal- 
ing is retarding and keeping undone the great 
good it would otherwise accomplish. Christian 
Science healers should not heal because they 
are being paid and they do not heal; the Creator 



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does that. They are merely used as the channel 
through which the healing passes. Just as the 
girl who is taking down this book is not writing 
it; she is a channel even as I am. You will 
perhaps set up the cry that you think it quite 
right to pay out of gratitude for the help it has 
given you. Very true, you should be grateful 
and willing to give something toward the 
support of the semi-healer, and you undoubt- 
edly would be governed by that desire. The 
fault lies with those who practice healing in 
issuing statements of healing given. It is a 
terrible thing to do and as long as these prac- 
titioners seek for material gain they will never 
accomplish that which they would if they lived 
in a humble fashion. It is an entirely different 
age from that when Christ existed to be sure; 
but if you wish to live as Christ lived and heal 
as Christ healed you will be obliged to do as 
Christ did. It makes no difference what faith 
you are of; if your desire is pure and your mode 
of living is in keeping, you will get the perfect 
healing. The healings of the present day scien- 
tists are imperfect and accordingly not per- 
manent. The true and perfect healing is per- 
manent. I merely bring in these facts to cor- 
rect, if possible, the present method, for if it 



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continues as it is Christian Science will suffer a 
great decline and will become extinct. For this 
reason, if no other, it behooves the believers of 
Science to turn their face hither and fight off 
the material nature that their faith may expand 
and grow into a beautiful and perfect realiza- 
tion. The simpler life you lead, the nearer 
your Creator you are. All the superficial crea- 
tions of man and the affectations of the present 
day are as tinsel on a Christmas tree and amount 
to even less. They are perishable and are not 
in any way desirable. By that I do not mean 
to say that refinement and education are not 
necessary, for they are. You can acquire both 
education and refinement without going to 
college or to a finishing school. It remains in 
your own hands to round out and make the 
most of your earthly existence. You must be 
adaptive and desirous of attaining fine heights. 
Keep your ideals lofty. Be big. Cast your 
lot in with big people and live according to the 
highest ideals as nearly as you find it possible. 
Do even as a pupil of a master does. Say, "I 
will" and always make your material nature 
bow down before the spiritual and finer nature. 
That is the way the adepts and masters have 
gained perfection; through using indomitable 



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will and possessing great courage. Do not let 
your fellow creatures affect your own knowledge 
of right and wrong. It does not in the least 
matter what the world thinks or pretends to 
know about you; but it is that which you know 
you are harboring in your own consciousness. 
The world contains a great many beautiful beings 
in the form of thought and could be full of 
these beautiful thoughts if you would all work 
in unison and harmony. The greatest of all 
evils is self deception. It is the root of most 
every crime that is committed and should be 
combated as a devil and cast away. When 
you once start deceiving yourself you begin to 
deceive others and deception causes you to lie 
and steal and sometimes even kill to avoid 
being found out. There are more phases of 
materialism than you can count and as long as 
you allow either the desire for luxury at the 
expense of some one else or the lust for power 
to hold sway over you, it will keep you from 
realizing to the full extent the blessings you 
would otherwise receive. The gross sensations 
of life are so very evil in their influence that I 
entreat you from the depths of my soul to over- 
come them. Change the course of your exist- 
ence while you still possess a physical body to 



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function with, so that when the experience of 
death overtakes you it will find you on guard 
and ready to take up that spiritual existence in 
a higher state of consciousness. 

August 22nd, 1916. 

In Nietzsche's philosophy he expounded the 
superman. It is an interesting and worth while 
topic. There will be supermen and women in 
a future cycle, although that period of evolution 
is still in the far future. When the superman 
comes into existence the difference between 
him and the present man will be vast indeed. 
He will be larger and more perfect in physique. 
His intellect and mind will be far superior to 
that of the man of the present age. The ma- 
terialism of this day will not dominate him; he 
will live a life full of noble purpose. His am- 
bitions will be spiritual. He will crave knowl- 
edge of the Infinite and will be able to perceive 
more of the invisible. Every superman will 
possess psychic and clairvoyant power. When 
that phase of development has been reached the 
hardest and most difficult part of the journey 
of evolution will have been passed and spiritual 
enlightenment will be very pronounced. It 
would not be possible for the human mind of 



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to-day to conceive of the spiritual splendor of 
the superman. These are facts that will be 
proven in the due course of time and for this 
reason I say continue your way in all conscious- 
ness of the truth. Christ lived such an exist- 
ence and through such training of His soul and 
mind He gained perfect spirituality and came 
back to teach His fellow creatures the way. 
It is often stated in Christian Science that the 
physical world does not really exist, that it is a 
figment of the imagination. They are mis- 
guided in believing this. For the physical has 
always existed just as the spiritual has always 
existed and it must continue to exist forever. 
It is a part of the plan and serves its purpose. 
If it were not for the physical existence the 
evolution of soul would be all one-sided. You 
see examples of this one-sided development 
every day in the world. A great musician 
usually develops his talent at the expense of 
all other necessary faculties and it would be so 
with soul development. It would not be nor- 
mal and complete without experiencing the 
human emotions as well as the spiritual and 
the soul could never gain that state of perfec- 
tion which we all hope for. It is indeed true 
that we spend only one thirtieth of our time on 



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the physical plane; but during the physical 
existence you can accomplish a great deal 
toward the end in view and you can make 
noticeable advancement. The temptations of 
the flesh are far greater than are those of the 
spirit and if you can make spiritual advance- 
ment while functioning with a material body 
and can overcome countless temptations the 
accomplishments of the ego, or soul, are that 
much greater. Mrs. Eddy said in Science and 
Health, "There is no physical science," but 
physical science is vital to the growth of the in- 
telligence, or ego. It is that which helps to form 
and round out the true state of being. Many 
so-called Christian Scientists also believe that 
when she said, "There is no death" she meant 
a physical death, which is a misunderstanding 
on the part of the Scientists. The real "I am" 
is as eternal as the Creator himself and can 
never die. The soul is a spark of the divine 
essence of life. If I could set before you a plan 
or map of the greatness and vastness of the 
scheme of evolution and life you would each 
and all be utterly astounded and even this the 
coming teacher will do, to teach you more com- 
pletely the universal law and commandments 
that you may understand more fully the in- 



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visible power which after all is the only power 
which is permanently established. When Christ 
lived before, He taught the people in a way that 
would most appeal. He taught them by using 
signs and symbols and parables and they were 
all written down in the Scriptures and the 
people of a later day reading them took the 
meaning literally. The spiritual truth and 
beauty of His work was completely lost and it is 
only at this late day that human beings are 
beginning to grasp the significance of His great 
teachings. When He comes again all will be 
changed. St. John, the Divine, said in Reve- 
lations, "Behold, he cometh with the clouds 
and every eye shall behold him. I am the 
Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, 
that which is, which was and that which is to 
come, The Almighty." There is little hope for 
those human beings who are governed by 
agnosticism as one must be alert and keen in 
desire for spiritual phenomena to occur before 
it possibly can happen. Faith can remove 
mountains, but, of course, that faith must be 
perfect and of a fine character. These sayings 
of mine are more than ben trovatos; they are 
actual facts and can be proven in your every 
day life. Dieu et mon droit. I am willing to 



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undertake the responsibility of dictating this 
work in the hope that a few of the millions will 
accept it and strive to comprehend it. It has 
been thus dictated by jure divino and I am 
humble enough to follow out these directions 
to the best of my small ability. 

Aug. 24th, 1916. 

It is indeed surprising the amount of fear 
and dread that human beings experience when 
the subject of death is discussed. It is the 
commonest of all fears and one that must some- 
time be realized according to the mortal sense. 
The secret of perfect fearlessness is to be aware 
of the existence into which you will pass and 
learn to distinguish the different routes. You 
can acquire a marvelous sense of sureness and 
poise by studying this book. There is meaning 
in every word and thought, because there is a 
purpose back of it all. The one and only way 
to overcome the fear of the physical death is to 
feel intuitively that you are not passing into 
oblivion but on to a better existence. Human 
beings who commit suicide are cowards and do 
not realize until it is too late that there are les- 
sons which must be learned. It is like a small 
boy playing truant. He escapes the hard les- 



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sons of school for a day but when he returns the 
next day he has lessons to make up and new 
ones to learn, besides the feeling of shame he 
experiences for having taken the easiest way of 
getting a rest. When people who take their 
own physical lives awaken to consciousness in 
the spiritual world they feel a great shame for 
having given up to a momentary weakness and 
they suffer pangs of agony, because they realize 
how futile it was to give up the physical instru- 
ment before the time was right. It makes evo- 
lution much slower, because the persons have to 
return to earth again and complete their ex- 
periences there before they can take up the exist- 
ence in the spiritual sense as they were meant 
to take it up. When suffering, either mental or 
physical, appears to be more than you can pos- 
sibly bear, lift up your heart to the Creator and 
get strength. If you earnestly seek, all good 
things will be given unto you. It is the wrong 
outlook, the narrow viewpoint and lack of under- 
standing that keeps you from realizing the full 
blessings you were intended to enjoy. All pov- 
erty, sickness and vices are of your own mak- 
ing. The Creator has no part in these unpleas- 
ant experiences of life. There are certain effects 
from certain causes and in such a manner that 



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you will learn. When a baby learns that a 
stove is hot he will keep away from it and when 
you learn that certain actions will bring certain 
unpleasant results you will cease committing 
these errors and when you cease to err you cease 
to suffer. Every phase of life must be logical 
and evenly balanced; otherwise the Creator 
would not be a supreme spiritual being. When 
you look around at the poor deformed creatures 
you feel intense pity, and you say to yourself, 
Why must it be that humanity must suffer this 
way? What has that innocent person done to 
merit this terrible disfigurement? Would you 
call God just if he permitted his creatures to 
suffer unjustly? Then why do they suffer? Un- 
less you are aware of the divine laws you will 
not know that that very creature who you are 
pitying is reaping as he has sown. The Creator 
is not responsible for his deformity. He made 
his own karma and must pay his karmic debts. 
No one is responsible for his suffering except 
himself and when he gains the light and knows 
how to accept his life, he will seek to pattern 
himself after his Creator and live a life that will 
cause him to be glorified at some future time. 
Most every living person has at some period 
gone through some phase of deformity and has 



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committed suicide during some incarnation. We 
all pass through the various stages of develop- 
ment. Some work out of the lower existence 
far more rapidly and there are a very few who 
are climbing the short and dangerous path that 
they may gain spiritual exaltation more quickly. 
In most instances it is exceedingly unwise to 
attempt to hurry development; it is better 
to progress in a normal manner as too much 
meditation along one subject, especially one so 
broad and serious, is quite likely to cause a human 
mind to become unbalanced. There are very 
few persons who are under perfect enough con- 
trol to ascend the steep path of rapid develop- 
ment and you should be wise enough to study 
slowly and continually until you are capable of 
grasping all these fundamental truths in the 
proper fashion. 

August 25, 1916. 

Deo non Fortuna come all good things, con- 
silio et animis you may gain the most exalted 
heights and through careful perusal of these 
beautiful words you would realize how fully 
that is true. The person who absconds from 
the true existence and eagerly accepts a substi- 
tute is utterly lacking in discretion, since if he 



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were discreet he would study consciously all 
laws pertaining to the true state of existence, 
not as it merely appears to be. Everything is 
different under the surface and it is so with life. 
Alas! We rare]y learn of our folly until it is 
beyond our control and it is then only through 
intense discomfort and pain that we learn not 
to transgress. To show you how thoughtless it 
is to commit suicide, for instance I will relate 
an incident of a woman who came here a month 
ago. She had suffered great mental agony, al- 
though it was her own fault. She did not real- 
ize it then. Her husband began paying atten- 
tion to a younger, better looking woman. She 
almost lost her reason when she learned of his 
unfaithfulness to her. Instead of making the 
most of life and making herself captivating 
enough to win him back she moved and threat- 
ened him to the very limit. He simply ignored 
her and became more and more indifferent. The 
root of all the evil was her jealousy. She had 
imagined so many things about him and had 
accused him so often that finally it drove him 
right into the company of the other woman who 
possessed a kinder disposition. It was quite the 
effect taking place and had she been a wiser 
woman she would have pulled up short and 



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would have molded her life and his along better 
lines. It is such weaklings who cause the great- 
est tragedies of life. She gave full sway to the 
demon of jealousy and moroseness that held her, 
and after her husband finally left her, she took 
her own life. That man is going through life 
with a heavy burden to bear. The pity all 
rested on the wife's side. No one could com- 
prehend a man allowing his wife to eat her heart 
out as he had done, and the suicide was the 
climax of the tragedy. When Mrs. R. awak- 
ened to consciousness here she opened her eyes 
to the true state of existence. She is now aware 
of her great mistake, although it is quite beyond 
her power to undo that which is already done. 
She cannot lessen the burden her husband is 
bearing. She cannot comfort him or beg for- 
giveness; that is the bitter part. When the wine 
is gone the dregs remain. The blessing that is 
hers is the insight she possesses. She is not 
floundering in a sea of darkness, for she knows 
life. She will, of course, return to an earthly 
existence much sooner than shall we who have 
lived out our natural lives. She must again be 
tested and tried out. Her trials will be great 
and she must endure them in all patience, since 
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There are countless cases similar to Mrs. R's., 
and if you who are now existing in the world 
could but realize the utter futility of it all, you 
would not slip along; you would not allow the 
tide to carry you beyond wading distance from 
the shore of common sense and discretion. 

August 29th, 1916. 

A most interesting subject is regarding seers, 
psychics, clairvoyants, etc. Most persons are in- 
deed skeptical in regard to the occult and in all 
justice I must admit they have ample cause to 
be, since many of the so-called psychics are the 
most ordinary kind of fraud and, if it is possible 
to discriminate between the true psychic and 
the impersonation, I should strongly advise you 
to never go to one of the latter. It is bound to 
leave an impression upon your mind which is 
indelible and even though these persons do not 
possess the natural psychic force in even a small 
degree, they can send out harmful thoughts. 
The way of the true clairvoyant is indeed a 
difficult one, since so many deceptions of that 
order are being practiced. There are also dif- 
ferent classes of mediums. First, the one who 
attracts merely shells and malign spirits. This 
type should religiously be avoided. The atmos- 



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phere of this sort of a seance is exceedingly 
harmful. There are different types of mediums 
as well as types of people and spirits, or souls. 
The various types of clairvoyants see from vari- 
ous levels and often they are so undeveloped as 
to see distorted visions and in such instances 
their information is not at all accurate. The 
only information that can be called absolutely 
correct and accurate in every sense is that given 
through a master, since all other entities are of 
a more or less undeveloped order and are not 
aware, to the full extent, of the life surrounding 
them. The only type of clairvoyant that is re- 
liable is that which is under the direction of a 
master. Such a person is accordingly of a high 
spiritual order and lives a more ethereal exist- 
ence. By that I do not mean to imply that such 
a person would be free from all material im- 
pulses, for that is not true. They do work away 
from the lower state of consciousness more 
rapidly and are able to perceive the invisible 
where the ordinary sluggish human beings need 
must struggle for a long period of time before 
reaching so high a level. Every one will at 
some future period of development possess clair- 
voyant powers. It will be as much a part of 
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have perhaps noticed at various seances how 
each medium draws different types of entities. 
Entities are attracted to their own kind and if 
entities of a lower plane communicate through 
the same medium as do those of higher levels, it 
would denote that the medium is possessed of 
both characteristics and whichever impulse held 
out the stronger, that impulse would draw en- 
tities in accordance. Every side of existence 
can and must be given an account of. Nothing 
is as mysterious as it appears. It is like a blind 
man. He cannot see the world; consequently 
he cannot feel that it really exists. A blind man 
feels only taedium vitae and longs for the time 
to come when he will possess spiritual sight, if 
he be not permitted to possess physical sight. 
After all he is learning something which will never 
leave him again and that is patience and self- 
control. And it is so with you all; you cannot 
conceive of the invisible life, because vou are 
blind to it. But be consoled, for the voice of 
the people is the voice of God. As I said in an 
earlier letter the master selects his pupil with 
an eye to the possibilities that the pupil may 
possess and unless the clairvoyant has gained 
his power through a good and wise source he 
cannot in any possibility attract an entity who 



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is highly evolved; the vibration between one 
and the other would not be in accord. It would 
not stand to reason and could not be made right 
in any sense. That accounts for the various 
types of mediums and psychics that exist. Many 
have forced this occult development and have 
used it only for material gain or to harm. In 
such cases the power is evil and consequently 
can draw only the lowest types of astral beings. 
Keep this as your motto, Nil desperandum, and 
live according to it. 

September 2nd, 1916. 

I have lived up to the present and I feel quite 
satisfied with my letters in that I know they 
are sincere and carry an appeal to you all. I 
am not writing them at my own will or through 
my own small understanding; a great mind is 
guiding me and I am content. I am deeply 
impressed with the vigor of life that you all 
express and I feel that this vigor may be turned 
into splendid use after careful study and guid- 
ance. It will be wise for you to remember that 
since you think you exist, without thought you 
would become as nil. So keep your thoughts 
high and put honor and truth before riches of 



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the earth. To accomplish this is tour de force 
and the reward is eternal life. 

September 3rd, 1916. 

To-day I will discuss Buddhism as it is, not 
as it may appear to be, and I feel that some light 
ought to be cast on the present condition of Hin- 
dooism and Buddhism. In many instances Hin- 
dooism and Buddhism are all right and the fol- 
lowers are doing that which seems true and good. 
There are many highly evolved men among them, 
but for the average Hindoo who claims to impart 
spiritual truth and knowledge I have little in 
favor to say. These men invariably practice 
deception on their followers who are usually 
women of refinement and possess large incomes 
or fortunes. These women usually live to re- 
gret the influence of the Swamies. In a great 
many instances they accept money for impart- 
ing their philosophy and I could give in detail 
and name countless sad experiences that women 
have gone through by allowing themselves to 
be lead or influenced by these Hindoos. I do 
not mean to make these assertions to harm but 
only to give you understanding of these phil- 
osophies and their followers. These teachings 
which I am writing down are not in any way 



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connected with any of the philosophies of the 
present day. The egotism of the so-called 
theosophist is usually his own greatest draw- 
back. He is so apt to believe he has developed 
rapidly and consequently blinds himself to the 
actual state of his own consciousness. Theos- 
ophy in itself is Divine Wisdom and those who 
in all truth attempt to live according to that 
which it teaches are the nearest to having gained 
the desired understanding. There are indeed 
very few who are following in all honesty the 
way it directs. Most of the so-called theos- 
ophists listen to the ideas and opinions that 
they form themselves and there are a great 
many teachings which they expound which have 
simply been conceived of in man's own brain 
and are not of divine origin in any sense. Man's 
viewpoint and his perception of life are sadly 
limited and lacking, so how can one man tell 
other men how they shall live? The greatest 
drawback of these Eastern cults is that they lay 
too much stress on the personality of material 
beings and really they are more absorbed in the 
personalities of their teachers than they are in 
the true philosophy that theosophy teaches and 
to be sure it does contain a tremendous amount 
of fine, uplifting thought. The Buddhist does 



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not live according to the teachings of Buddha 
in that they worship idols and burn incense not 
to the spiritual uplift that Buddha meant them 
to get but to the material side of his philosophy. 
Through worship of the symbol they have come 
to look upon that symbol as the real object and 
it only proves the more conclusively how dis- 
torted the average human perspective really is. 
It is invariably true of the rigid orthodox re- 
ligions too, since they accept Christ's beautiful 
teaching in a literal form and all the wonder, 
the greatness and vastness of life is lost in this 
manner. The secret of all understanding lies 
in the proper interpretation. A woman may 
learn to sing an Italian song. She may even 
pronounce the words as softly as they were 
meant to be, but if she does not understand the 
meaning of the song the best part of it is lost 
and she cannot sing it as she would if she knew 
the meaning. And it is so with religion. You 
can believe and go along reading your Bible and 
your philosophies, but if you do not understand 
the meaning of that religion you do not gain any 
enlightenment by reading and believing in it. 
The only way is to continue on your journey of 
evolution with thankfulness and gratitude in 
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Ich Dien, as a German would say and always 
remember ex nihilo nihil fit, which in Latin 
means, from out of nothing nothing comes. 
Nothing produces nothing. Knowing this you 
can realize how acts produce acts and thoughts 
produce thoughts and when you have no good 
thoughts think nothing at all, since nothing pro- 
duces nothing. 

September 9th, 1916. 

Oh Grasping Materialism, could you be but 
shattered into a thousand pieces and allow the 
human beings who are now in bondage unto 
you to become free, how glad I would be. My 
hands are tied in that, since we must all work 
out our salvation. It remains for each one to 
break the chains that bind you to materialism. 
I doubt if many of you who will read this book 
are aware of the power of vibrations passing 
from one consciousness into another. Some 
persons are unusually susceptible and sensitive 
to either good or evil vibrations. There are 
various forms of them and it might be well to 
name them that you will be able to distinguish 
between them and avoid coming in contact with 
harmful ones as much as possible. Anger causes 
a keen or sharp vibration and causes new ef- 



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fects to take place which rebound back into the 
consciousness of the person who allowed him- 
self to become angry. Every inclination or de- 
sire causes a vibration to take place, although to 
the sense of the ordinary human being they are 
seldom felt unless they are of a powerful nature. 
Intense passion of any sort causes extremely 
heavy and depressing vibrations to form. You 
have perhaps felt upon suddenly entering a room 
a deep depression or feeling of uneasiness. It 
is because of the character of the vibrations of 
which the atmosphere of the place is formed. 
Each individual forms different vibrations or 
impressions and it is these vibrations which also 
color his personality to a great extent. In the 
presence of some persons you feel a comfort and 
ease. In such persons the vibrations are of a 
better type. Anger, distemper and surliness are 
not in the disposition of such persons except in 
a very small sense. They have learned the 
power of self-control and know unconsciously 
how to mold their own vibrations. I remem- 
ber distinctly of my own disposition on earth. 
I was very sensitive to vibrations, although I 
did not know then how to account for the sensa- 
tions I experienced. Into every home that I 
went I felt different vibrations; sometimes the 



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very air appeared to be electrified with depres- 
sion. In other homes I have found the spirit of 
kindness and hospitality just as dominant. You 
know by having had experiences of your own 
how distinctly uncomfortable another person can 
make you or how very happy. It is according 
to the vibration between you just how you will 
feel. Of course, your own vibrations have some- 
thing to do with the feeling that you experience. 
Every living creature is constantly sending forth 
these vibrations, since he is constantly thinking 
and acting and vibrations are the result of 
speech, thought and actions. I could devote the 
space of a whole book to this one subject; it is 
so wide and it varies so greatly. The vibration 
a materialist sends forth is like a living thing 
and it plants new seeds of materialism in the 
hearts of others. By associating with densely 
material, pleasure loving folk you will in time 
be just as they are. Though your own nature 
inclines toward spiritual things, you can smother 
that nature until it becomes almost separated 
from you by simply closing your eyes to all but 
that which the senses can perceive. Persons say 
so often, I do not believe in anything which I 
cannot see or feel. How pitiful; how little hope 
there is of enlightening them. It is they who 



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suffer such agony after the physical bonds are 
severed. It is this type who finds it his lot to 
agonize until he has burned these desires and 
inclinations into ashes. He must submit and 
bend his head humbly sometime and how much 
better to bend your head humbly now and avoid 
the suffering afterward. When hell is spoken 
of in the Scriptures it means exactly what I am 
telling you in this book. It is the agony, re- 
morse and sorrow which you experience for hav- 
ing not lived spiritual, godly lives. Carpe diem, 
enjoy the present day, embrace the opportunity, 
improve time. 

September 12th, 1916. 

I have since coming into a spiritual exist- 
ence witnessed many entities coming here as 
the result of accidents and dreadful sicknesses, 
and their first sensations after death are so 
unusual that I have decided to relate a few of 
them that you may understand more fully how 
little death in itself really means. Aside from 
being interesting and unusual they are all true 
experiences and have been undergone by count- 
less persons. An experience of this nature which 
has perhaps impressed me most was that of 
A. H., a young aviator of considerable fame. 



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He had been known the continent over. Dur- 
ing one of his famous dips the engine was shut 
out by the force of the wind; he failed to adjust 
it and fell several hundred feet to his death. 
His body was horribly mutilated by the force 
of the fall; indeed it was a sight to cause the 
most courageous to shrink from in horror. 
However, his spirit left the body before the 
plane reached the earth. Upon awakening into 
consciousness, he says his first thought was, 
Well, how in the world does it happen I am not 
hurt after falling from such a height? Then 
he looked around him, he seemed in a partial 
darkness, he could feel nothing and the shadows 
were so deep as to leave him uncertain. He 
believed that he was lying on the aviation field 
and that it had grown dark. When he was 
about to investigate further a helper appeared 
before him. The boy thought he was his own 
mechanic and in a rather jocular manner he said, 
"Well, Tom, I sure had some tumble, but I 
am as whole as a new whistle, so roll a cigarette 
for me; I feel rather unsteady." The helper 
motioned him to remain quiet and he took hold 
of him saying, "Come, I wish to show you some- 
thing." He made it light around them and 
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from under which they were removing a body. 
"That is your physical body," continued the 
helper, "you have left that vehicle for all time, 
you are now dwelling in the mental sphere." 
The boy looked and looked upon the body that 
was so badly crushed and hurt and finally he 
turned away. He found it a most difficult task 
to realize that he was no longer a human being 
and for a long time he was only content while 
watching other aviators flying their planes. He 
brooded and clung to that phase of the material 
until he saw his favorite aviator killed in the 
manner that he had been physically annihilated. 
After that he was content to work out karma. 
He had been a clean but densely material fellow 
and had possessed little belief of a God or a 
future life. He had believed that when death 
overtook him he would simply cease to exist for 
all time. At first he rebelled, as many of us do; 
then he grew sad and finally he became re- 
signed. I cannot say that he is happy, although 
in time he will be quite so after he has learned 
the futility of being attracted to material things. 
He will arise safely and will come to know the 
truth and in time he will forget the material 
entirely. He will then be ready to take up 
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Another interesting and somewhat unusual 
experience was that of Mrs. L. who was killed in 
a train wreck last February. She was first 
knocked into complete unconsciousness during 
which the car that she was in plunged down a 
steep enbankment and several of the occupants 
were buried in the snow. For many hours the 
body of Mrs. L. remained in its grave of snow. 
Her suffering was acute for a few moments and 
then she passed into a state of half-conscious- 
ness. She believed that she was listening to 
beautiful music, which, of course was only the 
sound which all persons in a half conscious state 
of mind apparently believe to be music. It is 
in reality only the receding sound which vi- 
brates until it finally altogether disappears. 
The snow in which she lay was melting ever so 
little and the trickle and running of the water 
may have sounded like music. She says of her 
own experience that she could not account for 
the sound. She also says that she saw objects 
moving with weird fantastic motions. These 
peculiar sensations and visions are, of course, 
accountable only in one way. Every person 
who has gone through the experience of death 
has seen different visions and has heard dif- 
ferent sounds. It is according to the state of 



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his mind when death occurred. Mrs. L. also 
says further that from the time she knew that 
death was about to overtake her she felt no 
desire to resist it. She was even glad to go, 
since she was anxious to know just what would 
happen after death. During her life on earth 
she had been an agnostic and the only emotion 
she felt was for those she was about to leave 
behind. She said that during her whole jour- 
ney she had felt a shadow of what was to come 
and in a sense she was prepared for it. She 
never felt afraid at all and when she found her- 
self as much alive as before death she was only 
happily surprised since she had believed in 
nothing before. She felt a pang of mental 
nausea when she saw the physical body re- 
covered from its burial ground of snow. She 
did not seem particularly affected by the grief 
which her husband exhibited and apparently felt. 
Her life had not been of the brightest kind and 
it was really a blessing that she found it possible 
to slip out so quietly, for she is much happier 
here. I must say that she is a fine broad char- 
acter and is advancing rapidly because of her 
firm, just disposition, or nature. It has never 
been difficult for her to keep on the right path 
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The greatest discomfort for her evidently will 
be in returning again to the physical plane. A 
peculiar phase of rebirth is the fact that a 
woman is rarely reincarnated a woman twice in 
succession although it does occasionally happen. 
The sex of the person usually alternates with 
every incarnation and Mrs. L. says that she has 
a perfect horror of being incarnated as a man. 
However, all of these phases of our lives will 
work out as they should. It only remains for 
us to live to the best of our ability and do that 
which the Master directs. Sometimes just at 
the close of one of your days when I look down 
upon you going your way in darkness as to the 
true source of all light and goodness, it wrings 
my soul to its depths but I know that it is best. 
The great law of karma must be obeyed in life 
and it is only in this manner that we can 
grow and learn. Mrs. L. is especially adaptive 
and has accepted her life here in a quiet matter- 
of-fact way which to me was very surprising. At 
first I believed her to be apathetic. I have 
learned that she is not so in any sense of the 
word. It is merely her way; she takes things 
as they come and does the best she knows how 
to meet them. She regrets nothing and mourns 
for nothing nor has she ever been affected in any 



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sense by the disintegration of the physical 
body. Of course, many other entities have re- 
signed, patient attitudes and are more than will- 
ing to work out of their material attractions. 
It is rare, however, that they retain no desire 
for some loved one or some precious earthly 
treasure whether it be human or inanimate. 
There are only a few entities of that character 
on this plane. Had Mrs. L. possessed 
spiritual insight she would now be on the sixth 
or seventh plane; but in such a manner are the 
scales balanced. Where she possessed patience 
and other necessary qualities I possess to a 
greater degree spirituality and understanding of 
life as it really is. You see entities have faults 
and are in many respects as inaccurate as are 
human beings and can see life only from their 
own level. If every entity here would attempt 
to write a book as I am doing, the books would 
all describe life here differently. In no way 
would they correspond with my own book. In- 
deed if I were not getting counsel, advice and 
understanding from a high source, which is 
always accurate, I would undoubtedly write an 
entirely different story, since from my own level 
things do appear differently than I am writing 
them. In many respects there are so many 



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sides to our life and so many different states of 
consciousness that unless one can get the true 
understanding from a high source it would be 
useless to attempt to give you a correct and 
accurate picture of our life here, our own vision 
is likely to be distorted or limited, although, of 
course, we are not limited in the sense that 
human beings are limited, since we know abso- 
lutely that there are different planes of life and 
consciousness while you are only surmising that 
there are planes of life around you. You do 
not feel at all certain of this unless you possess 
clairvoyant power. To those who possess this 
power the understanding comes naturally and 
these persons accept it, for they know and can 
judge for themselves. 

September 15th, 1916. 

A somewhat interesting subject is that of 
control and how entities are able to control 
mediums or psychics or give messages through 
an alphabet or a table. In the first place one 
person among those sitting around the table 
must be sensitive to our influence. Unless there 
is one sensitive, the control will not be perfect 
and we cannot talk or make ourselves known, 
and it depends very much on the type of the 



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person what character of entities will be drawn 
to the table. There are different kinds of con- 
trol and high entities very rarely come to a table 
seance. It is mostly malign or low entities who 
amuse themselves in this manner. The highest 
of all controls is that of automatic writing as 
only entities of the best type are capable of con- 
trolling the arm of the sensitive, although occa- 
sionally a lower entity does gain control even 
through this method. However, it is a forbidden 
pleasure and such an entity would be made to 
suffer for having taken control in this manner. 
So many people ask and wish to know how it is 
that we control the sensitive and in what man- 
ner do we gain control. It is a question that 
has never been answered correctly and I am 
going to state it clearly now. Of course, I have 
made it clear that in no sense are we physical; 
consequently that means of gaining control is 
eliminated. It is our personality or spirit that 
communicates through the medium. For in- 
stance, in writing this book I do not move this 
young woman's arm in any manner except 
through concentrating my whole personality or 
individuality upon the arm and I think what she 
writes and forthwith it is written. It is entirely 
through thought and in no other way is her arm 



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guided. So often you hear automatic writing 
spoken of as the writing of an invisible hand. 
That is a ridiculous supposition and should be 
eliminated at once. However, a great deal does 
depend upon the constitution of the person 
whom we control in this manner. By that I do 
not mean that the person must be especially 
good or religious. Many persons who possess 
psychic power have developed it by other meth- 
ods than by spiritual development. A clairvoy- 
ant can use his power for good or evil. When it 
is used for other purposes than for the benefit 
of humanity it is evil and can do great harm and 
no good whatever. Some one said not long ago 
at a seance, that he wondered whether we 
possess voices. Of course, we possess voices. 
We converse with one another as we always did; 
but our voices are spiritual and cannot be heard 
by the ordinary human being since they do not 
sound like your own physical voices. It would 
be difficult to describe a spirit's or entity's voice 
except that it is more a thought than a voice. 
We are conscious of what each other thinks and 
we answer in thought and the other entity is 
conscious of what is being answered. That is 
the nearest that it is possible to explain our mode 
of conversing. It does not explain it fully, since 



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it is unexplainable to a human being. I wish 
to say one more word about the different forms 
of control. The planchette used to be a common 
method for getting into communication with the 
spiritual existence. It has now become such an 
abused instrument that only nature spirits or 
prixies will be drawn to it. They have derived 
great amusement from it, however, and indeed 
it is quite a humorous spectacle for us to watch 
you asking your questions to these little impish 
spirits who answer in kind and they gurgle in 
their joy at the deception they so successfully 
play upon the sitters. They give unusually 
clever answers and are very good impersonators, 
too, often passing themselves as departed rela- 
tives of the sitters. There are so many forms 
of spiritual life and it is quite as easy to be de- 
ceived by spirits as it is by human beings; even 
more so, since it is possible to learn of the de- 
ceptions of human beings while those that spirits 
practice are not at all accountable. So when 
you attend seances you may know that you are 
completely in the dark and you may or may not 
be speaking to the entity who claims to be your 
friend or mother. There is only one solution for 
this problem. Do not use a planchette ever and 
do not attend seances except when given by a 



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highly developed psychic, since all other modes 
of communication are exceedingly treacherous 
and it is very unwise to use them. The aver- 
age medium is undeveloped spiritually and can 
draw only a low type of entity. If the psychic 
is under the guidance of a master and the master 
gives his sign, then that psychic is a developed 
type and can draw only the best influences to 
him. Another peculiar thing about control is 
the fact that it is only under certain conditions 
that we can communicate at any length; unless 
the medium is in a certain condition or frame of 
mind we cannot answer mental questions. If 
conditions are exactly right, it is possible to an- 
swer questions which have been written on a 
paper and sealed in an envelope. In a great 
many instances mediums or clairvoyants abuse 
themselves by overwork or by allowing them- 
selves to become nervous under the condition. 
This state of mind would quite naturally bring 
about conditions that would cause us to be un- 
able to answer mental questions and it would 
indeed be almost impossible to communicate at 
all. Very few persons realize just how sensitive 
a psychic is and are likely to expect too much of 
him. Indeed the psychic himself often does 
not realize how easily he can overdo and overtax 



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his own nervous system. In writing this book 
I have had to do so under very difficult condi- 
tions and some days I have not allowed the girl 
to take any dictation, since it would mean the 
sacrifice of her health if she were to continually 
work under the nervous strain that she is the 
victim of. Indeed she has worked under ex- 
ceedingly adverse circumstances and has not 
been in the right atmosphere for good work from 
the beginning. And it is so with any medium. 
He must work under the proper conditions to 
get the best that we can give. Also the com- 
plete understanding or part of it at least is often 
lost when transferred through a medium. In 
many instances messages you get through a table, 
for example, are not intended as the sitters are 
lead to believe, since these entities are not capable 
of communicating their thoughts correctly when 
such laborious methods are used. In time it will 
be possible to communicate with us in a simple 
and sane manner and there will then no longer 
be doubt as to the source of the message, because 
you will know intuitively. Of course, a great 
many things must first be learned and you will 
find it necessary to study thoroughly deontology 
before you can hope to be designated a channel 
through which this work will come. 



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September 25th, 1916. 

In starting my letter to-day I want to say 
one thing about the letters which have already 
been written. In looking them over I feel that 
perhaps they may at first impress you as a 
preachment. However, they are not meant to 
be such. My desire is to banish the narrow 
mindedness. I want every living creature to 
have his chance. My heartiest desire is to 
straighten out matters. Is it quite fair not to 
give the invisible souls an opportunity to prove 
their existence? Heretofore only a small per- 
centage of the people have accepted the truth 
about life and we have been smothered into our 
own spiritual existences without having been able 
to prove our existence in any sense when in reality 
we are more keenly alive than you are. So for this 
reason I may have preached in that I might show 
you the light. In my earnestness I have laid 
before you all a picture which will be indelible 
and you who read this may know that you have 
gained something which you can never lose, and 
if you feel ready to accept these truths you will 
have gained greater blessings than you have the 
insight to comprehend. You need not despair 
ever when you learn the truth. It is never too 
late to turn your steps heavenward. To be sure 



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it will be more difficult since the longer you trans- 
gress the more debts of karma accumulate and 
it will be indeed a task to pay all of these debts. 
But be brave and face the situation calmly; set 
out to meet every account, do not attempt to 
shirk the responsibility as there is no possible 
means of escape. But when you have met every 
debt of karma you have the rest of your exist- 
ences clear and it behooves you to generate only 
good karma in that you may develop spirituality, 
since the reward of righteousness is a place in 
the kingdom of Heaven and it is in the power of 
every living creature to attain that blessed state 
of consciousness, and remember omnia vincit 
labor j meaning that labor overcomes all things. 

October 16th, 1916. 

Some time has elapsed since I have written 
a letter and I am becoming attached to this 
means of expression. Indeed I shall miss it 
greatly when the work is transferred to another 
entity to assume, since it has given me the op- 
portunity of coming in contact with my loved 
ones on earth and I had for many months sought 
in vain to attract them in some manner. I feel 
quite satisfied and I shall be perfectly willing 
to continue my own evolution, since I have 



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proven to my loved ones that I exist and am 
even nearer to them than I was when I existed 
in a physical sense. And now that the time 
draws near for me to go on to higher levels I 
know that I can do so in all understanding and 
in perfect peace. I have done my work. I have 
given the message I have been directed to give 
and have followed orders to the best of my 
ability. With God as my adviser I cannot go 
astray. The end is only the beginning of another 
perfect day. And it is so with each and all of 
you; if you will listen to His call and seek to fol- 
low His advice and counsel you cannot help but 
go on to better and finer things. The voice is 
small and still and can be so easily drowned out 
by the louder cry of materialism and you can 
gain consciousness of its presence only through 
careful meditation and by listening and await- 
ing it always; remain on guard; do not let the 
enemy come in and take possession, for when 
he once gets within the gates the fight is a hard 
one and it is exceedingly difficult to make him 
retreat. The candle of spiritual illumination 
burneth forever. It remains for you all to seek 
its light and so I say unto all races and nations, 
peace be with you; the Master liveth always; 
the world is without beginning or end. The 



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planets never fall. Consciousness was and is 
and will always be. Seek ye always to gain 
the uttermost point, perfection, as one great 
man said before me, "Divine law must take its 
course." The spark of the Divine which is in 
every human soul will in time become as a 
beautiful rose colored flame of chastity and 
obedience. Look you forward to the greater 
things which are to come and be content to do 
the will of the Father. 

The time has come for me to conclude my 
book and I do so with a fervent prayer in my 
soul that I have been able to help you to con- 
tinue your ways in peace. 



QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 

Ques. (1) Do efforts on the part of the dis- 
carnate spirits or entities to get into 
communication with their earthly 
friends or relatives retard their spirit- 
ual evolution? 

Ans. (1) In some instances, especially where 
the loved ones on earth are of ex- 
ceedingly material natures. Entities 
of a higher character are less likely 
to seek to communicate unless it is 
to help a loved one on earth. 

Ques. (2) How is it that you are able to know 
on what planes an individual exists? 

Ans. (2) By the aura of the individual we are 
able to denote his state of conscious- 
ness and accordingly we are able to 
know what plane he will be on. 
However, he may change entirely 
after the time in which he might be 
told on which plane he would go to. 
Since nothing is settled every one is 
evolving all the time and it would be 



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impossible to give accurate informa- 
tion along this line. 

Ques. (3) Have discarnate spirits any knowl- 
edge of the future life of their dear 
ones by which they can give accurate 
advice ? 

Ans. (3) Where the future of a dear one is 
positively settled we are able to guide 
him rightly. But when that life is 
not settled we could not hope to ad- 
vise him accurately, although we may 
tell him that which would be well to 
do. Such advice is always good and 
people would do well in accepting it. 

Ques. (4) Do we exercise the same amount of 
free will on the astral plane as during 
a physical existence? 

Ans. (4) In the spiritual sense we exercise far 
more free will, since by simply willing 
to do a thing we can do it, where 
human beings find it almost impossi- 
ble to do these same things. We have 
not the free will to harm or give com- 
promising information and any such 



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information given to a human being 
would be quite valueless, since there 
are certain fixed laws here which pre- 
vent slander in any sense of the word. 

Ques. (5) Does the possession of psychic power 
necessarily imply higher spiritual de- 
velopment? 

Ans. (5) Indeed not. A great many clairvoy- 
ants and psychics are quite unde- 
veloped spiritually, and unless they 
are pupils of a master they have not 
developed very much. A developed 
psychic and an undeveloped one can 
readily be distinguished, since one 
draws only fine forces while the other 
draws low ones. 

Ques. (6) What is the prime requisite to gain 
spiritual development? 

Ans. (6) Truth is the prime requisite, since 
without absolute truth in thought and 
action souls cannot logically progress. 
It would be quite as impossible to 
advance without truth as it would for 
a carpenter to attempt to build the 



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chimney of a house first instead of 
the foundation. Truth is the founda- 
tion of evolution and when truth is 
acquired patience and courage are 
yours. Since it takes patience and 
courage to be truthful they come as 
the result of truth-telling. 

Ques. (7) Do dreams have any reality outside 
the mind of the sleeping individual? 

Ans. (7) Some dreams have a certain mean- 
ing or significance and are sent for a 
purpose; but for the most part 
dreams are the result of the physical 
mind attempting to function intelli- 
gently, while the ego is elsewhere. 

Ques. (8) Does the practice of so-called me- 
diumship impair the individual de- 
velopment of the medium? 

Ans. (8) Not necessarily; but the average 
medium had better not be one, since 
it often causes him to be unable to 
distinguish between development and 
clairvoyance and unless a medium is 



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spiritually developed he cannot at- 
tract high forces. 

Ques. (9) What causes bring about natural 
psychic gifts ? 

Ans. (9) Through either forced or merited 
development. Some psychics have 
been developing for many hundreds 
of years to be able at some time to 
work some good for humanity. These 
powers are not acquired in one day 
and it takes long to develop them. 

Ques. (10) Would one ever be justified in using 
this psychic power to spy upon 
another? 

Ans. (10) Absolutely not. When a human be- 
ing uses this power for such a pur- 
pose it would be evil and would in 
time bring the user dire results and 
such a medium could only do this as 
a representative of the black forces. 

Ques. (11) What is the permanent way of ac- 
quiring psychic power? 



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Ans. (11) Through concentration and develop- 
ment along spiritual lines. By con- 
stantly wishing to do good for hu- 
manity you will one day possess this 
power. 

Ques. (12) Do we have a new mind in each in- 
carnation ? 

Ans. (12) In a psychical sense (partly). But 
the real I am is always in existence 
from one incarnation to another. 
The individuality of a soul cannot be 
lost. 

Ques. (13) What is the advantage of reincarna- 
tion ? 

Ans. (13) Because without reincarnation de- 
velopment would all be one-sided. 
The soul could not progress without 
expressing both human and spiritual 
emotions. 

Ques. (14) Who determines when and where a 
soul shall reincarnate? 

Ans. (14) The Lords of Karma govern the re- 
incarnation of souls; but the soul 



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himself holds his fate in his own 
hands to a certain extent, since man 
can live in all consciousness of the 
real life or he can blind himself to it. 

Ques. (15) How can we teach ourselves to re- 
member our astral experiences which 
occur during sleep? 

Ans. (15) By concentration before sleep. 

Ques. (16) What produces our moods of feeling 
of either depression or exaltation? 

Ans. (16) The vibration and the thought at- 
mosphere that surrounds you is what 
produces either intense depression or 
exaltation. 

Ques. (17) Is it ever right for one to investigate 
for himself and delve into things 
unseen as far as possible? 

Ans. (17) Not for the gratification of curiosity; 
but if it is a keen desire for spiritual 
knowledge the investigation would 
be justified. 



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Ques. (18) Does Death make any great change 
in man; does he suddenly become a 
saint or angel; and is he endowed 
with wisdom? 

Ans. (18) Emphatically not. Man's position 
after death is according to what his 
life was when death occurred. Few 
men have reached high enough de- 
velopment to be likened unto saints 
or angels, and their knowledge is 
also limited. Death causes few 
changes except that man is relieved 
of the cumbersome physical shell. 

Ques. (19) Is mediumship a power or a con- 
dition ? 

Ans. (19) Mediumship is a power which is 
acquired only by long study and 
concentration. 

Ques. (20) How is the taking of life by capital 
punishment regarded from an occult 
point of view? 

Ans. (20) It is decidedly wrong for one man to 
take another's life, no matter what 



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that man may have done. How- 
ever, if it is his karma to be so 
punished it would be quite just from 
the occult point of view. 

Ques. (21) If the world teacher already has a 
physical body why does the body of 
some disciple have to be prepared 
for him? 

Ans. (21) The world teacher is divine and pos- 
sesses only a spiritual body. To de- 
scend into the world which is densely 
physical, he must have a vehicle; 
hence the preparation of the body 
for him. 

Ques. (22) Do you believe that the Christ used 
the body of the Master Jesus two 
thousand years ago? 

Ans. (22) It is absolutely true that Jesus pre- 
pared the body for the Christ before 
even as Alcyone is preparing it for 
His future coming. 

Ques. (23) What becomes of the individuality 
of the disciple when the Christ takes 
full possession of his body? 



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Ans. (23) He ascends first into the mental 
sphere of existence and then is im- 
mediately incarnated to work with 
the Master, and the Christ and the 
disciple are nearly as one so closely 
allied are they. 

Ques. (24) What can you tell us about the power 
and use of thought? 

Ans. (24) The power of thought is life; without 
thought life would be as nil and the 
development of the ego could not go 
on. You can help others or harm 
them by sending forth powerful 
thoughts. The kingdoms of mankind 
are balanced on thought, and your 
evolution depends largely on what 
you think and how you think. 

Ques. (25) Can a person of low development 
lose his soul? 

Ans. (25) Souls have been utterly lost, so the 
records teach us. It is a rare in- 
stance and in such cases these souls 
were conscious of the beautiful truths 



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of life and deliberately set out to 
combat them. They are the fol- 
lowers of the dark forces and eventu- 
ally through ages of systematic wrong 
doing they lose their individuality 
and become lost. 

Ques. (26) How would you explain the seeming- 
ly causeless fears that many persons 
experience at night? 

Ans. (26) While the ego is existing outside of 
the sleeping body it has come in 
contact with evil forces. Upon re- 
turning to the physical body the 
ego registers its fear, the brain be- 
comes alarmed and you are made 
aware of the unpleasant experience. 
This accounts invariably for the 
fears you naturally believe to be 
causeless. 

Ques. (27) Are the forms of activity on the astral 
planes equivalent to those on earth? 

Ans. (27) You can employ your time as you 
desire and if you desire employment 



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that is equivalent to that of the 
physical existence it will be given to 
you. 

Ques. (28) Are the occupations suited to the 
individual tastes of the former earth 
dwellers ? 

Ans. (28) Yes, life is what you make it; but I 
would strongly advise you to work 
away from the material tastes and 
desires and acquire the desire for 
spiritual development which is vital 
to the evolution of soul. 

Ques. (29) What effect will President Wilson's 
re-election have in the United States ? 

Ans. (29) He will undoubtedly serve the people 
better than before, since all knowl- 
edge that is lasting is gained by ex- 
perience and he has learned much. 
The effect of his election on the morals 
of the country is favorable. 

Ques. (30) Do we meet and recognize on the 
astral planes those whom we loved on 
earth? 



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Ans. (30) It is seldom that members of the 
same family meet while existing in a 
spiritual sense, since each individual 
goes to the state of consciousness that 
is most suited to his own develop- 
ment. However, members of the 
same family always come in contact 
while incarnate. That is a karmic 
law. 

Ques. (31) Is life eternal and what are its pro- 
gressive states? 

Ans. (31) Life is without beginning or end. 
The progressive states are the various 
levels of development and conscious- 
ness. According to man's under- 
standing so is he evolved. 

Ques. (32) Does animal life continue the same 
as human life? 

Ans. (32) Life from the least to the greatest 
continues. Life of various forms 
rises gradually from one state of 
evolution to another. Indeed there 
are a great many animals on the 



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astral plane although they are not 
conscious of their surroundings as 
man is and they dream complacently 
on until they are returned again to 
earth in some other form. 

Ques. (33) How can man fit himself to continue 
life on a higher plane? 

Ans. (33) Only through constantly seeking the 
light of understanding and spiritual 
illumination. Man must work and 
acquire enlightenment. Nothing is 
gained except through merit. 

Ques. (34) What can man do to elevate the 
thought of the world and the warring 
nations ? 

Ans. (34) By first elevating his own thought. 
His individual thought sends forth 
vibrations and the effect is always in 
accordance with the thought ex- 
pressed. It is thought which forms 
the atmosphere of the creation in 
both a material and a spiritual sense 
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others by always thinking wisely 
himself. 

Ques. (35) I have always believed President 
Wilson to be a great ego. Am I right 
in so thinking? 

Ans. (35) No. President Wilson is not a great 
ego. He has many fine character- 
istics but greatness for him spiritually 
is still in the veiled future. 

Ques. (36) Has any adept done work in Minne- 
apolis among the poor? If so, will 
you state an experience or relate an 
incident? 

Ans. (36) Yes, work is now being done in Min- 
neapolis by a Master and K. X. will 
relate many interesting incidents re- 
lating to this work in his diary which 
will soon appear before the public. 

Ques. (37) Is intuition always correct? 

Ans. (37) Intuition is always correct; but it 
may readily be mistaken for impulse 



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and there is a vast difference between 
the two. Man should listen long and 
well to discern between them. Im- 
pulse passes and intuition remains. 
In that way you may know which is 
intuition. 

Ques. (38) How do you account for all of the 
different views concerning religion? 

Ans. (38) There are as many types of persons as 
there are states of consciousness and 
each type looks at life differently. 
That is why there are so many cults 
and sects. The principle back of 
each is correct; it is merely the inter- 
pretation which is wrong and that 
is sadly in need of being righted. 

Ques. (39) How does the rest of the universe 
appear on the astral plane when you 
are looking at one certain object? 

Ans. (39) It appears to each of us differently. 
It does not always become apparent. 
When I wish I often seek for a par- 
ticular person or object without 



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being able to locate it. I am not 
always able to ascertain that which 
I am looking for. 

Ques. (40) How does an entity find it possible to 
tell a human being about other en- 
tities whom he had never come in 
contact with during life? 

Ans. (40) There are thousands of connections 
which appear to the developed or 
sensitive entity and if the entity were 
sensitive enough he would know 
about the other entities by the 
force of the vibrations. 

Ques. (41) What effect does music have on a 
sensitive person ? 

Ans. (41) Music of various kinds affects various 
persons who are sensitive in different 
ways and it is the kind of music that 
the sensitive person would hear that 
would affect him. Many persons can- 
not listen to music at all. In such 
instances it is because of extreme 
sensitiveness to sound. It affects 
the nervous system and the astral 



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body too greatly and causes pound- 
ing vibrations to take place which 
are anything but pleasant to the 
person who listens to them. 

Ques. (42) Does a Master choose a pupil that he 
wishes to have under his tutelage? 

Ans. (42) A Master selects a pupil with an 
eye to his possibilities and his de- 
velopment also is considered. Very 
few persons are evolved enough to 
become the pupil of a Master directly 
in contact with him and it is not a 
common occurrence for a human 
being to be accepted as a pupil and 
he must have developed far beyond 
the ordinary people of the earth. 

Ques. (43) What is the difference between a 
disciple and a pupil of a Master? 

Ans. (43) A disciple does not necessarily have 
to be a pupil. The disciples are those 
who follow in faith and do that 
which they are directed and it is 
usually a pupil who is chosen to 
direct the disciples. 



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Ques. (44) Are the invisible helpers drawn to 
those whom they help by old ties or 
are they directed by a wonderful 
being? 

Ans. (44) The invisible helpers help all who are 
in any way deserving. They are 
guided by a wonderful being and it 
is because of this that they help. 

Ques. (45) What is meant by the word "Logos?" 

Ans. (45) Logos means the word, or the God 
of all creation and it is the constant 
outpouring of love from the Logos 
that causes life of every good form 
to exist. The evil that exists is of 
our own making and is not part of 
the Logos. 

Ques. (46) Can an entity travel as rapidly as 
one's thoughts do? 

Ans. (46) An entity can be in many places by 
simply willing it. 

Ques. (47) Will persons who have endeavored 
to attain perfect memory by study 



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and concentration have a clear one 
in the next incarnation? 

Ans. (47) A person who had made the effort to 
train and also retain his memory will 
have a clearer insight and under- 
standing upon the next return to the 
physical life, . 

Ques. (48) Why should one have doubts in the 
physical mind when intuitively one 
knows in the soul, that there are no 
doubts there? 

Ans. (48) The doubt that one experiences in 
the physical mind is merely the phys- 
ical self combating the real self, 
whenever you may feel doubt. 



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